Finally...finished hat pictures!

Finally, the hat pictures are posted!  I'm pleased with my hat efforts.  They were fun to do, but I'm glad I'm done.  I know its for a worthwhile cause, so its a bonus! 

I searched the web for different hat patterns.  I have the basic roll brim hat pattern down in my head permanently, I think!  I wanted to try something new & different for the hat project.  I found the helix spiral to be one of my favorites.  It doesn't take too much yarn & I was able to use a lot of smaller balls of yarn for these.  I'm sure I'll continue to do these in the future, because they look interesting as well! 

I also enjoyed making the mitered hats.  Adding the floppy brim made it fun & stopped that nasty curling under that I didn't like.  One of the mitered hats has a ribbed brim.  It looks nice, but I don't like it as much as the floppy brim.  The pattern suggests garter st, I may try that sometime in the future, but I like the look of St st.  Plus, garter uses so much more yarn, I didn't want to run out of a color while doing a hat! 

I tried using some mosiac patterns on a few basic hats to add some interest (for me, mostly).  My favorite is the pink & orange version.  Wild colors, but they really seemed to go well together.  I'm sure I'll do more like that too. 

So, on to the next project.  I started working on an eyeglass case with wool.  I will felt it to make a nice thick case.  I frogged what I had done, I just wasn't happy with it.  I'm going to make this one up as I go, so it should be interesting!