*meow* Kitty Cat hats

So my friend Kerri requested two kitty cat hats to be made. Now it was a bit of a challenge for me cuz I'd never made one before. And I could not find a decent pattern for exactly what she wanted. So I had to create some of it by myself, and kinda steal ideas from other patterns. It's kinda like a Frankenstein pattern haha. But here is the resutls.

I'm thinking of writing up this pattern but not anytime soon, whoo boy it was a doozie. The funny thing was I just kept making mistakes cuz it was a first time hat. Like I made one ear, and it was all wrong so I had to discard it and make another one. The first time I sewed the face on the wrong side of the hat haha. That was not fun to take it all off and redo it on the back. But I think overall it turned out really well. Kerri tells me she keeps getting compliments on her hat and that makes me happy. I think I will definitely make more animal hats as it wasn't complicated and they look really cute. Here's a picture of Kerri and Sarah wearing them.

I gotta say, the purple one ended up the better of the two haha. That's cuz it was the second one. Technically the pink one is my prototype, the prototypes never seem to be the best but they are the original! (just ask Grant about his Jayne hat haha)

My next funky hat project? Who knows but there are two that I really want to make, one is the chicken hat http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=47371.0 and the other is a giraffe hat. I randomly came across one once and I think it would be hilarious to make one. But I've decided that for next winter I will make myself a chicken hat and wear it proudly. I suspect interesting photo ops for next winter!

Baby Shower Gifts

So a couple that I know just adopted a 3 month old baby! She's super cute and we decided to have a baby shower for her. PERFECT opportunity to make some awesome baby crochet stuff!!  So the first thing I made was a little stuffed hippo. And of course it had to be purple :)

So I got the hippo pattern from a book, one of the few books I have of crochet patterns. I'm all about getting free patterns online haha. But anways, this book is called Vanna's Choice Easy Crochet Critters. And it has the most adorable animals in it!! And they are easy to crochet. I totally recommend the book and it's only like $7 Canadian. Good deal.

So anyways, I also made her two headbands and a white hat with a flower on it. Now I forgot to take pictures of the hat and one of the headbands. But at least I did take a picture of the light pink one.

I really like these headbands, and they are SUPER easy to make. So here it is.

You chain 60 stitches. Then you do 1 DC in each stitch. You turn and do 1 DC in each stitch. Then you sew them together. Easy peasy. The flowers, well you can find an easy flower pattern here http://www.patonsyarns.com/pattern.php?PID=3096&cps=21191. Then you just sew the flower over top of the seam from the headband. Overall I say it was a successful baby shower gift :)