HatI mentioned in my last post that I was going to make some hats, gloves or scarves for the school I’m working at now that I’ve finished the Mario blanket.  I searched from some crochet hat patterns and found that the easy level ones were rather boring.  I found one that I really liked with a cool spiral effect but I’d have to learn a whole new stitch.  I looked for some video instructions for the the stitch front post double crochet, also known as fpdc, and saw that it wasn’t particularly difficult.  I dove right into the pattern starting with my new friend the Magic Ring and had a great time working on the hat.  I was very determined to finish it tonight and worked on it for several hours.  It wasn’t difficult just a lot of work.  I finished the hat around 8pm after starting it around 4pm.  I had already decided early on today that it would be an easy-going, do-nothing, lazy day since the other days of the holiday were busy!  Between working on the hat I did get 2 loads of laundry in though, so not a complete waste.

The hat is titled Divine and I found it at Rheatheylia.com.  It took a bit more yarn than I had anticipated but luckily I had just enough left over Pound of Love blue.

Another project I’d like to do is granny square slippers from The Purl Bee.  Too much to create and not enough time!