Welcome To Earth David

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.

That would be me of course, making one of the hats I’ll be selling when I get my business going. The fall season is here and as most of you out there who keep up with my blog know that the four things I love the most in life are getting outdoors, my crafts, movies, and listening to my music. Going to the lake in the fall season is my most absolute favorite thing in the world. I love the cool air, the leaves changing colors, the beautiful sky over the water and just sitting there with some yarn and a crochet hook or my knitting needles making a hat. That is just what I did yesterday. I am going back out there today, despite how high the gas is right now. Screw it right. Life is too short to stay cooped up in the house all the time right. Later!!

A day or so ago I showed you a 2X2 Rib Stitch skull cap I made with some pink camouflage yarn. Today I want to show off this pink camo tam. This is one of the ladies tam hats that I have been making over the past couple of weeks. I’ve been meaning to get a picture of one of them online to show how they look when worn so here it is. I hope you like it. These hats will be selling for around $10.00 when I open up my shop. I think one of these hats would be a great accessory for any woman of any age.

I got up at 9:30 a.m. today and started working on a new beanie cap design. I have been wanting to do a cap like this for quite sometime but I never could find a pattern that worked out well for me, so I made up my own design and this is what I came up with. By the way, yes that is me modeling the hat. Anyway, I wanted a design that could be made up for a guy or a girl depending on yarn color and I think I hit it right the first time. I didn’t exactly get the size down perfect on this first cap prototype, but it is very close and I can get the size down better when I make more of these. Also the burgandy yarn wasn’t my color choice to make this cap, but it was a good scrap yarn to use for trying this out and it is a nice color anyway so whatever. I think once I get this beanie perfected it will be a nice addition to my cap inventory when I open my shop.

Well I just wanted to show off this new cap I made up today. I gotta get outside now and go cut my grass. It is looking like it might rain and I don’t have much time to get my grass cut before the rain falls. Oh, just to add this… I have been doing some major yarn stash busting still. I’ve made about four or five more tam hats since I posted the hat and scarf picture a few days ago. I will try to get a picture of the new tams up for you to see later this afternoon after I have mowed my lawn.

A few days ago I showed you a scarf that I’m working on to wear this winter. Today I want to show off this round crochet blanket I started crocheting Sunday afternoon when I got home from work. This is something I am just making up as I go along and my pattern isn’t perfect but it is good enough I guess. The blanket doesn’t lie perfectly flat because I put a few too many increases in some of the rounds but I am trying to correct that by decreasing the amount of increased stitches. I wanted to have a sort of fishnet style stitching in the blanket so it is basically double crochet, chain 1 stitching around and around with one round of increases and one round of even stitching. My plan is to make it just big enough to cover the top of my queen size bed so it will be big enough to use as a bed spread or a furniture throw. I don’t think it is going to take more than eight balls of yarn to make this and I think if I can spend at least one hour working on it each day then I should be able to finish this in about a month. I was inspired to start making this by this girl’s round blanket posted on craftster. Her blanket however is done with half double crochet stitches. I knew that wouldn’t work for me because I crochet pretty tight and half stitches would have taken me forever to produce a blanket like this. So there it is, another yarn project I am currently working on. I hope to be able to show you the finished product around this time next month or sooner. So far at this point the blanket is only about 18 inches across.

Update: I am afraid I have sad news. My blanket wasn’t turning out the way I had planned. In this second picture you can see the progress I made today and also that the blanket had a slight ruffle in it that I was totally not satisfied with so I ripped off the carrot colored yarn to be used in my next project which I will be bringing up in my next couple of posts. Oh and if your wondering what I’m doing with the baby blue part of this crochet flop, it is going into a basket as a reminder to better construct my patterns in the future instead of just winging it.