Six New Crocheted Tams Made By Me
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Here are some more women’s hats I’ve finished recently. The colors are warm brown, carrot, light blue, some stripey blue, bikini mix, and light raspberry. I actually have two or more hats of these same colors made but I didn’t put them all in the picture. The last time I counted I have made about 30 of these so far. Some people call these tams, some people call these berets. Whatever you call them I think these are cool and they are fun to make. I am really getting a lot of yarn used up making these hats, but I still have a long way to go before I’ll be ready to move on to something else. I didn’t realize just how much yarn I had in storage until I started getting serious about opening up a new shop online and trying to make a lot of stuff to increase my inventory of items to sell. I am trying to make these hats as fast as I can. I have come up with a couple of ideas for some other hats I want to make as well as some small handbags I want to make as well. I still haven’t come up with a name for the shop yet but I am working on that. I just can’t seem to come up with a really cool name that stands out from the crowd…. but I will. I’m starting to get a feeling though that this winter is going to be over before I get ready to start selling this stuff but if that is the case then maybe at least I’ll have time to get into making some more of my hemp jewelry for the upcoming next summer. We’ll just have to see how things are gonna happen. I don’t want to rush into this thing the same way I have in the past to find myself not quite yet organized and ready enough to run the business the way I planned.
I did not write the following passage, but I couldn’t have said it better myself….. September 11th in one way or another changed all of our lives, it brought all of us together and reminded all of us just how vulnerable we are. September 11th will always be remembered as a tragedy, a day that altered the course of our nation forever. We should also remember it as a day when our nation came together and said in one voice we stand united with the workers of the World Trade Center, workers in the Pentagon and the families of Flight 93 victims. We should remember the candlelighting’s that took place in cities across the country, the American flags that decorated trees and houses across the nation in numbers never yet seen. We should remember the heroes that ran toward the danger, willing to trade their lives to help another, we remember the members of law enforcement and fire departments across the country who drove to New York and said today our baseball rivalries and our political affiliations don’t matter, we are one. We should remember on that day that America stood with one voice, no matter the age, no matter the skin color, no matter the gender that we stood shoulder to shoulder as one and said we will never forget. 
