Well it's me again.  It's funny that every time I make something there are a myriad of spinoffs in my head.  Same is true with this one.
First a young friend sent me a picture of a hat she liked and asked me if I could make something like it.  Well the original takes periodic purl rows and since I don't have a garter bar, I improvised.
Took the hat to her today and she liked, it fit and all is right with the world.  I got a charge out of it when she said "I love this yarn", which is exactly the yarn I used.
So here you'll find pictures of Anna's hat.  She looks good in the hat and she's happy with it.

Oh, and the loose yarn has been sewn in, that's not part of the finished hat.

Toodles

Just adding the last of the two

So, assignment finished for now.  Took these pictures this morning.  The young lady is my niece.  The hat is obviously too big, but she's not yet 10.  This hat is actually larger than the other one.  Both have embellishments that are sewn to pin backs. Note that the *bow* attached to the rose as a background piece is a scrap from yesterday's attempt at needle felting.  Waste not want not as the saying goes.  As an aside, it took me YEARS to figure out what that saying meant....as did, Petunia ain't got no friend, and  you can't have your cake and eat it too,.....but I digress!

Toodels

Putting new knowledge to use

Okay, I ain't sayin it's all that pretty, but it's a new effort to repurpose hats that went wrong.  Oh yeah, they went wayyyy wrong.  First the color they went in the washing machine with didn't come out the other side, and then, the never did shrink.  So they've been sitting around here taking up space and niggling at the back of my head to morph into something......this morning they did.  Well, maybe morphed isn't quite the word, maybe it's more they splurffed into being.  I cut pieces out of several hats and used a felting needle to hammer them into what looks like a giant amoeba with a suntan.  It's not, as I said, pretty, but I think it's interesting and it's another foray into needle felting.  I'm thinking next time I'll be making a hat embellishment for a pin back, it will have a more,.....cohesive?,.............no, I know, *defined* shape.  Yes, yes, that's it....I'll make a fish shape for the next one.  That outta be good dontcha think?  Yep, yepper, I believe I'll make a fish.

So friends, I'm off to make more hats and stuff. ;-)

Toodles for now