Yes. Rad.
I was cruising the interwebs the other day and came across this lady's cute crochet coffee cozy pattern (alliteration is awesome). I kept poking around her blog and found out she makes, like, a million hats a month and has cute patterns available for purchase. And she gives out 50% off coupons. Maybe, she even gives them out in this very blog post... *gasp*
I'm in.
I'd been trying this other crocheted hat pattern for a few years now that never came out the way it looked in the picture. But I'm stubborn and thought it would work out eventually. Eight times later, I'm pretty sure it just won't turn out the way I think it should.
So!
Check it out...
My neat little hat. Terrible picture, sorry. But it really does look just like her picture!
I used Lamb's Pride Bulky yarn in Violet Fields (totally my color) for the majority of the hat (one of my favo yarns) and a little Full o' Sheep yarn (doubled up) in Little Lamb for the accents.
You are all getting one for Christmas.
It's so easy! I think it took me three hours total to complete (with children under hook "helping me yarn," coffee breaks, and watching Season 7 of The Office) and the pattern was generally easy to follow. I didn't see fit to make any "improvements" (AKA, mistakes) along the way. I even checked the gauge as suggested!
Turns out I can follow directions, Ma!
I'm definitely going to make a few more of these just for kicks with different yarns. I think it'd be a good project for a yarny-type get-together. *clears throat* If someone were going to yarny-type gathering that is. *more throat clearing* Or hosting one.
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Yeah, when I host my stitch 'n' bitch party in a couple weeks, once someone clues me in on how to knit, I think I'll crank out one of these babies to soak up my tears of boredom. (Yes, I'm insinuating that knitting is boring.)
Here's the best part of this whole post (you thought the best part was the ellipsis, I know):
And as implied earlier, she's throwing you guys a 50% off coupon for this very hat pattern! Woop woop! Just click on this here link, crochet hat pattern, and enter the code RIOTPATTERN50 at checkout. Yeah, that's right. It's nearly free. Come on!
He is not bad looking.
