Hats, Hats, and More Hats

You probably don't really care, but if you are wondering what I have been up to lately, well, I have been making hats...hats of all kinds.  It started out with a Halloween costume my daughter's teacher friend wore at school.  Cheryl told her that her son would love it, so she let her borrow it for a few days.  It was a Curious George - The Man in the Yellow Hat costume.  After Cheryl had to return it, Joey was naturally very upset and wanted a yellow hat of his own, so this is what Grandma came up with.

If you think it looks a little like a yellow witch hat, you would be right, since I had to use a witch's hat pattern.  It works for Joe.  He thinks it looks like The Man in the Yellow Hat hat.

After I finished that, I decided to make Christmas hats for a friend's children.  I worked with Emily at Atlantis Charter School.  She had twins this summer and I have never yet met them.  She contacted me the other day and wanted to get together, so I wanted to take something for the kids.  She already has an older son.  I also wanted to make a hat for another former co-worker who had a son last year.  He is the one I made one of the Noah's Ark play mats for (very appropriate because she named him Noah).  I have never met him either.  So, with that in mind I made some hats.

These are the hats.  I have added their names to the hats after I took the picture.  The smaller hats are for the twins, Cooper and Callie.  The larger green hat is for the older brother, Logan, and the other red hat is for Noah.

While I was making the hats for my friends, my daughter-in-law Ellen asked if I could make some more hats for Portia like the ones I had made for her before.  She has outgrown one of them, and though the other one fits right now, it gets dirty quite fast because of going to the barn to milk goats with her Mama.  I of course got right on that project and made her a fleece hat.  It turned out to be much too large and when Ellen saw it, she said that she would rather have the lighter weight hats like the stretch knit one I made before.  So, I made the fleece hat smaller, made three stretch knit hats, and one flannel hat.

5 simple hats for Portia

One of the stretch knit hats.

Flannel hat.

Fleece hat.  Too precious for words.

I of course could not stop with Christmas hats.  While I was making the ones for my friends, I decided that it would be nice to make them for my grand children, too.  I wanted to get Zoe's and Jackson's done immediately because Marty and Kim were going to Pennsylvania to visit Tom and Mindy for Veteran's Day weekend and I wanted them to take the hats to the kids.  I will not be seeing them until after Christmas and I wanted them to enjoy the hats for the whole season.  I also got Dot's and Lucy's hats finished before they made the trip to Pennsylvania so they could all have their hats at the same time.  Marty took pictures of the kids wearing their hats, but I do not have them yet, so I will just put in pictures of the hats.

This week I was able to finish the other four hats for Ellis, Portia, Joey, and Lexi.  I was able to get pictures of these hats being styled.  I will show the others when I get the pictures from Marty.  I have seen the pictures, and they came out great.  I am convinced that I have the cutest models on the planet.

I think chocolate ice cream goes appropriately with a Christmas hat.

Very serious.  I couldn't entice a smile out of Portia this time.

Lexi loved her hat and squealed with delight wearing it.

Joey still doesn't like to stop for poses.  I managed to capture this one, though a little blurred from his movements.