Keeping warm in style

This hat was made for my Star Wars fanatic son's 4th birthday. It was inspired by a post on craftster.org. Using double strands of wool blend navy blue yarn from my grandmother's stash, I crocheted him a beanie. My mom's stash provided the gray yarn for the trim and TIE advanced X1 (Darth Vader's fighter).


I think this is the first wearable I've given a family member. It tickles me how decent it looks and how happy he is to pull it on every time we go outside.

Halloween costumes!

It was a Star Wars Halloween at our house. My daughter was the beautiful Princess Leia. My son was a jawa - he was exactly the right height.

Inspiration for the costumes came from http://www.jedi-academy.com/costume_tips.html.

Princess Leia wore a white turtleneck shirt, a white graduation gown, and a belt made from white vinyl with mirrored stickers for detail. The pink hiking boots were necessary due to the pouring rain outside.

The Jawa wore a black hooded sweatshirt and sweat pants for a bottom layer. His cloak and hood were made out of brown polarfleece. There was a visor sewn inside the hood made from a strip of plastic canvas used by old ladies to make tissue box covers. The belt was military surplus found in his father's stash. Although it was far from authentic, the polyester fleece held up to the rain better than a cotton one would.

Here's a close-up of The Hair. The pattern for the cap came from here. The all-important buns were found here. She wore the hat around the house for days!!

A lime green Hershey kiss?

It's a crochet hat, made with super-chunky yarn and fun fur, to be donated to Made By Hand. I giggled all through this project, working with a hook thicker than my thumb. I have enough yarn for about 2 more hats.

A hat and its friend

Here's a simple hat for Samantha, made out of super-chunky yarn, and a little octopus friend.
I am having a lot of fun playing with yarn!

Kitty hat!

Since Junior is always pretending to be a kitty, he got a simple kitty hat for his birthday.

It wasn't too hard - two measurements, 1 rectangle of fleece, two seams, and a bit of trim to make it fancy.

After she saw it, Snurf wanted one, too. It took me a whole 15 minutes to put another one together, and it was that long only because I had to change my bobbin thread!

Now there's two kitties in my house!