First off is a hat I made for myself, which has been dubbed The Jellyfish Hat by my coworkers. It's Lion Brand Amazing in Mauna Loa, and I finished it in about five hours total (which is a record for me, haha). I really, really, really love this hat! It's very slouchy and comfortable, but if I need to I can roll it up and have a nice warm brim covering my ears. The only issue I have with it is that the yarn is 47% Acrylic and 53% Wool, so it can get kind of itchy if I wear it for hours on end. The pattern is from Ravelry and is called the Give It A Whirl hat. You can find my Ravelry project page for it
right here!
Next is the hat I made for my boyfriend, Chris, who loved my hat and immediately decided he needed one just like it. He chose I Love This Yarn! Stripes in High Sierra from Hobby Lobby, which was a good choice but I almost didn't have enough to finish! The end result is a bit snug, but it's stretching out and he loves it. The yarn is Acrylic which is good, because the first time I made him a hat it was Wool and he ended up felting it on accident!
This is a sort-of stashbuster project (which I'm now offering for sale on my Facebook) that I'm calling the
Strawberry Ripple Scarf (that's a Ravelry link, folks!) and I really do adore. The yarn is Lion Brand Amazing in Strawberry Fields, and originally was going to be a hat just like the other two projects I've featured in this post, but Chris changed his mind and chose an all Acrylic instead. It's super soft, was super easy to work up, and works well as a cowl/infinity scarf. I learned the pattern from a Youtube video, and I've made several similar scarves. While I was taking pictures, my fuzzy shih tzu Abbey was very interested in what I was doing. Photobomb!
