Friday, November 14, 2003

The Scraps Are Gone...Sort Of!

Well, I finished working up the scrap ball from the other day.  Its all knitted it up into I-cord, waiting to be sewn to the rug.  Its a good feeling!  BUT...it was only the really small scraps that I knitted up.  I still have numerous small balls of various colors...I'll work on that...someday!  

Last night I tried my hat idea, but I wasn't too happy with the results.  I think it might be my color choices.  Anyway, I frogged it & just started making a plain hat.  This one has a ribbed brim in a solid royal blue & the top is a variegated in lots of crazy, bright colors.  Great kid colors, I think!  My daughter used to like those kinds of color combinations, before she got into the "wearing black only" thing!  I'm about halfway through this hat, I think it looks sort of boyish, with the blue ribbing. 

I still have to think of something for the mitered hat I completed the other day.  I'm still looking at it & thinking of ideas.  I don't have many for this one.  I may ask my daughter.  She has lots of great ideas that I wouldn't think of myself!  Its great to have another opinion to work with!

The brain is still thinking of the next girly hat that I'm going to do.  I already have the color combination picked out.  I'm going to do it in the mitered style & make a floppy brim like I did before with the orange-colored one. 

That hat is really not orange, it is a rusty red, but it looked orange in every picture I took of it!  I tried different lighting, different backgrounds, nothing worked.  So it looks orange!  Oh well!  Since I don't have a small child around for a model, I used a large soup can to give it some body!  It worked pretty good, but it would look lots better on a little girls head!  Someone will enjoy it, I hope!

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