Hooked it UP!!

Another project done.  I shock myself.  This time it's a crochet project, but just like my last project the timing is a little off.  I probably won't be wearing a snow hat anytime soon, but I like to think that I'm really ahead of schedule rather than woefully behind. 

This was my first time crocheting in the round or making a hat so I used this book for reference:

  

I really liked this book.  It had specific instructions, but also provided different ways to individualize your hat - you could make it a bit long to roll it up, make it a straight pull on with a finished edge and make some different flowers or leafs to pretty up the hat if you felt the urge.  I made a roll up version with a flower and leaf on a pin to make it a little bit "special".

   

That's the finished product and here's my attempt to capture the hat in action with my iPhone:

 

Normally I don't wear a hat and jacket in the bathroom but it seemed the best mirror for a self portrait.

I'm pretty pleased to have finished another project and now I'm on to finishing up the sampler I started a year ago in my class at the Royal School of Needlework in England.  I'm really looking forward to finishing this sampler and getting it framed and on the wall!  

I've seen on some of the craft blogs that I read, bloggers keeping a list of the projects they are working on and plan to start posted on their blog.  I'm torn on whether this would be motivational or just stress me out and make me realize that I dawdle forever on some pretty simple projects.  I keep a written list of things I am working on and want to work on but it's pretty easy to just avoid looking at that list and no one else sees it and realizes that I haven't done anything for weeks (and sometimes months) at a time.  I'll have to give this some more thought.

In the mean time I need a project to work on after the sampler that might be seasonly appropriate.  Something related to Spring or Summer?  Feel free to offer any suggestions!

Comments

[Kate]

Love it! Esp the flower.

What did you decide with the curtains? Curious minds... :)