Saturday, March 22, 2014

Put your hand in my hand...

Beanie Festival 2014

You guessed it...

Beanie Festival 2014

It's another ODDBALL hat for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival...

Hat number 3, in fact.

Beanie Festival 2014

I do love the hat, but I'm growing a bit weary of these colours...

So I think that the next hat will have to be a bit different!

After all - VARIETY is the spice of life.

Beanie Festival 2014


2 comments:

Neen said...

I like the multiple tassels hanging off this one. I would love to see the creative process behind these beanies. Do you make scrumbles then crochet them together?
Looking forward to the next creation :)

laughing purple goldfish said...

Thanks Neen...

Yes. They start out as scrumbles, which I then try and piece together (by sewing or crochet)into a wide headband to form the lower part of the hat. Then I kind of fill in the crown section with more scrumbles, but don't worry too much about creating a flat shape. The hat just evolves into its own shape, so I find it's best not to launch into it with a predetermined idea of how you want it to look - just let it flow by itself!

I will endeavour to show more of the process at some point... maybe not this week, but definitely for one of the 12 beanies I'm making for the festival.