The Mad Hatter

I recently in the past year or so have discovered my love for crocheting hats. I crocheted some scarves a few years back and made a blanket for my nephew but then lost interest in crocheting for a while, until my friend showed me some super cute baby hats she was making for a service project and so it began. I started making hats and fell in love. They are fast to make. I can finish one in an hour or two depending on the size and they are so fun to accessorize. But the one problem I had with my new hobbie was what to do with them when they were finished.

I decided my trip to see my sisters and their kids was a great opportunity to be creative and make some hats. I have 11 nieces and nephews under the age of 13 that live in the state of Washington and so I started working.

Here are some pictures of 9 of them in the hats I made for them.

 

I love little Lydia's ear poking out of her hat.

 

And incase that wasn't enough here is a close up of each with their hats cause they are so cute.

 

 

This is Kitty. She is actually wearing the hat I made for Lydia but we couldn't find her hat at the time. And this hat was too big for Lydia.

Then Jane while looking for her hat found Kitty's hat. So we took a picture of that too.

 



 

This is my favorite hat I made of the bunch. I have a hard time coming up with as many creative ideas for boy hats but Bennet loves Star Wars so I instantly thought I should make him a Yoda hat. Then I put some wire in them so that they would stick up or do whatever you wanted them to do. I love this hat. I think he did too cause he wore it pretty much the whole time I was there.

 

This is Lizzy. This hat took the longest to make because of the white and green petals around the hat. And then I had to sew th tips down so they weren't sticking out. But it turned out cute so it was worth it. And she loved it. She said it looks like frosting.

 

This is Jane from Christmas time. Even though she found Kitty's hat she couldn't find hers though I had seen it laying around all week. I found it 10 minutes after we took the pictures. Isn't it how it always works. But Luckily I had this from before.

And here is Lydia  on Christmas with her hat. She doesn't keep them on her head for very long so it is hard to get a picture. Isn't she adorable?

 

At this point we need to take a little detour from Hats to tell you about my crazy family. I am the youngest of 13 kids.The first letter of the names in our family go in alpahbetical order, kind of. There are 4 K names, then 3 L names, 3 Ms, 2 Ps, and an R. My mom, I guess, found it too taxing to write out our whole names so she created a code to make it shorter. She would use the first letter of our name and our number in the family. So K1, K2 ... L5.. M8..P11 and I was R13.

 

I don't like to use real names of kids on my blog so I am adopting that system here.

This is M1. This is one of the first hats I made. And it fits her so nicely. Yay!

M2. Her hat is done in a double crochet for those of you who know what I'm taking about. 

M3's hat is done in a single crochet. Both M2 and M3 like the same colors but I wanted to make their hats different so I used different styles.

And M4. I used a puffy stitch for this hat. Not sure what it is called. Takes a little more time but it turned out cute. I think.

And here is one more for you because I think it is adorable. You can't really see Lydia's hat but it was just a basic black hat that will be turned into an angry birds hat soon. Stay tuned for that.

Gosh I love these kiddos!