finally a non-rage filled hat!

hello my precious bugglette's!

today's blog is, yet again, about that crochet hat that i was going to conquer.

I FINALLY CONQUERED IT.

in fact, i've made a total of 4 crochet hats since my last blog of horrible rage!  

the first one, while totally correct, was just too baggy for my head.  again, the pattern was made by a person with much more hair than me, so it was totally okay to be hang-y on them.  but here it is:

see?  all floppy.

luckily, i finally found those magical rows that needed to be removed to lessen the slouchy to fit my short hair cut.

rawr!

cute, huh?

same hat in pink!

and just a little bit of slouch in the back.

i also made a tiny pink hat for bug, but i haven't gotten any picture of her in it yet.  it's still a hat, so she can't wear it to school.  i have to wait for some sort of outing to get her in her hat.

but that's all for now little bugaboos.  i was just so excited!

love and buttons, tiffers.

craft rage!

yes.  i have been hit with the rage.

i have been trying to crochet a hat for the past four days.  so far, i've unraveled three hats.

i told you guys about the awesome hat from spencer's.  well, i finally gave in and bought it because i couldn't find a pattern i liked or that seemed simple enough for me to recreate.  i still felt bad though for spending the like, twelve dollars or so (after my discount), since it looks so easy to make but i just can't decipher the pattern! 

my hat is cute, though.  :B

so i've been trying pattern after pattern after pattern.  the first two came out right, but were just way too big.  these patterns were designed by people with lots of hair.  if you have long hair the hat can hang down and be more floppy.  but i don't have that much hair on my head, so if my hat is too floppy it just looks like it doesn't fit.  D:

the one i made today came out right, but i couldn't get the hat to tighten up and close at the top.  i think the hook i used was too big, so the hat was too thick to close properly.  i'm in the middle of doing it again with a smaller hook.  i don't actually have the right gauge that the pattern calls for, but this one is closer, so hopefully it'll work out right and won't be to floppy. . .

but oh, the horrible rage i feel every time i have to unravel it and roll it all back into a yarn ball!  i just want to throw it in the fireplace and never deal with it again!

it's currently 3:32 am and i am staying up until this yarn ball turns into a hat.

love and buttons, tiffers.

a crochet blog!

hello, my little bugaboos!

so i've been crocheting the past couple of days.  i was trying to crochet a slouchy beret, we have them in at spencer's, but if i can make it it would save me about twelve dollars!  i did find a cute pattern for snowflake beret, very openwork and pretty, but i came across a bunch of stitches that i didn't understand.  but in the first three or four rounds, i accidentally made a floppy flower!  put together another floppy flower and made this:

not too bad, but it did inspire me to find a free use pattern for a better flower.  finally found one on youtube, as far as i know it's free use, it doesn't say otherwise (i always check my patterns, especially if i'm trying to make new stuff for bugglettes) but i'm gonna double check on it before i put anything in the shop.   it literally takes about five minutes to make one of these, so i've make about fifteen and have just been layering them for different things, like hair clips and such.  

while making these flowers, i used my thick scarf yarn and made a SUPER HUGE FLOWER.   it's a little too big and heavy for a hair clip, so i turned it into a headband/earwarmer!

on me it's an ear warmer, like earmuffs without the muffs.  :B

but on somebody with a lot of hair, like long thick hair that could hold up to the thickness of this thing, it could easily be pushed behind the ears and worn as a thick headband and the weight of the hair in the back would hold it in place.

but seriously, look at that flower!  it's huge!  better pics should be up on the facebook page tomorrow (hopefully)!

love and buttons, tiffers.