It finally occurred to me that knitting yard into shapes could yield something perhaps more functional than horses. (Is there really anything more functional than horses?) I hate making clothes. Sewing them always left me unsatisfied (does it fit? Kind of.) And knitting them? Yeah. Not with my attention span. But hats? Baby hats? Perfect. And it’s Autumn here. And I’d seen all these clever foodish hats at Farmers’ Market.
I wanted to make a pumpkin hat. First I wanted a jack’o’lantern one, but you have to put those kinds of things away at the end of October. Thanksgiving is plenty pumpkiny in my book – so I set out to find the perfect pattern. And, after long and delightful searching, I did. I found it. And I made it. I used a mostly acrylic with a nice hand to it, figuring babies mean a lot of washing, and I made mistakes. But I loved it anyway, and on Game Day, gave it to my first granddaughter, as you will see in the three thousand pictures that follow. Really, this kid is pretty darned cute. So this is a short piece – you can just zoom through.
How the Hat Turned Out
First we were in the basement, watching the game, and the light was low.
Oh – wait – is that football? Oooooooooo —
Then we moved upstairs where there’s a north window. Cam set up a little white board environment. Nice to work in.
Could I have had any more fun?
Now you can look at the hat (with its mistakes).
Yeah, I think she likes it.
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Lorri sent me these two shots today:
First this one, in which Baby Sister ( known from now on as Bss) looks like a Muppet dancing against a black screen –
And later this: evidence that thievery is going on in their household, and I’m afraid I’m going to be forced to repeat myself:
Ah, Scooter, I’ve known you of old . . . (allusion?)
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