Not So Silent Sockhead hat for Tyler

After five, or so, attempts, I've finally made an acceptable slouch hat for my brother! I love how it ended up looking like an eye in the center.

I found this Bohoknits' Sockhead Hat via Ravelry.  This hat was simple and fun to make.  I love working with sock yarn on non-sock projects.  The skein was small and the work mindless, so I kept it in my purse and worked it wherever.

The first one I made was a little generous, so I reduced the pattern by 8 stitches.  I used Loops & Threads Luxury Sock Super Fine in the color Ocean.

  Me knitting away at an open mic.

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Thank you, Tyler, for letting me photograph you.  Happy Christmas, Dr. Jones.

AUSTENtatious Crochet

I'm absolutely taken by this book AUSTENtatious Crochet, by Melissa Horozewski.  It is packed with crochet patterns I can't wait to make.  The library is going to have to loan this one to me more than once.

Jane Bennet Skirt

Ball at Netherfield

Emma's Hood

I found a thorough, but slow, Austentatious Crochet Book Video Preview on Youtube. Melissa Horozewski's page on Ravelry features many of the patterns in her book.

Gnome Hats

 

I've fallen in love with this pattern.  I rarely make the same thing twice, but I've made about eight of these hats, to date.  They've become my favorite way to use up all of my old Red Heart yarn; it gives a nice, stiff structure for the peak of the hat.  I never do the loop at the top that the pattern shows. I think it looks goofy.

I found this Earflap Hat pattern on Lion Brand's website, so you won't be able to view it unless you are signed up to the Lion Brand site.

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I call the blue one Princess Habba (after a Swedish toy that my friend's son gummed to death as a baby) and I think I just might keep it for myself.  I got the flower from 10 Petal Popcorn Flower on The Laughing Willow blog, but I stopped after row 4; the popcorn row.

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I finished the ear flaps with either a braid of 20 to 30 yarn strands or a simple icord.

 The dogs are always ready to help.

I decorated the maroon hat with sage green yarn remnant and a pink and white flower I made up by either dc or sc into a loop.

Thank you to my hat model, Heidi.