fantasticmio.com » cold http://fantasticmio.com Yarn Hacker Tue, 22 May 2012 12:34:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Too Sexy For My Hat http://fantasticmio.com/2009/12/04/too-sexy-for-my-hat/ http://fantasticmio.com/2009/12/04/too-sexy-for-my-hat/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:28:04 +0000 mio http://fantasticmio.com/?p=604 One of the problems with writing a craft blog is that it becomes hard to keep up the closer you get to Christmas. More time is spent on crafting, and most of those crafts are presents you’d prefer the recipients not discover prematurely.

The other problem, which I suspect affects all types of blog is: computers suck sometimes. :P

I can’t do a whole lot about that last problem, but take a look at these not-Christmas-presents I made using crochet-on-the-double.

A pink and purple hat for Maddie:
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Purple side, pink side:
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One wedge shape (hat consists of 8)
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And a matching scarf:
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This yellow one is *slightly* bigger and is for Katie:
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Side:
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Flat dark yellow, flat light yellow:
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The folks on Craftster seem to think these are pretty good (I’m glad I’m not the only one!), so why not give these as Christmas gifts? Three reasons:

1. I’m not entirely certain they’ll fit, as I’m just figuring out the pattern… and giving items made for testing a pattern you’re writing seems somewhat unthoughtful.

2. I already made them each something else.

3. If they were gifts I wouldn’t let myself blog about them. :P

Come January I’ll be looking for more test subjects, including adults, so stay tuned!

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