Hooked on hats

After my initial foray into crocheting, I wanted to start on a wearable small project. So that's where hats came in. I figured that crocheting a hat had to be something akin to knitting a scarf. So off I went to find out how. So I started with instructions from threadbanger for a hat that was rather similar to the amigurumi that I was previously making. It was simply single crochets in a spiral. Then I added a little crochet flower for embellishment. The flower I originally made was this loopy flower but it just didn't fit that hat so I took what I learned from there and made my own simpler flower.

After my first hat was completed I started onto a second one. Since I had already done so much single crocheting, I wanted to do some double crochet stitches. So I made a hat consisting mostly of double crochet in rounds (I read about working in rounds and I think I figured it out now, but I can't be certain). And then I threw in some rows of puff stitches at the end. Of course since I didn't use a pattern and I made it up as I went along it ended up in a funny shape. So it was a bit of a failed hat :(

This did not dissuade me from making yet another hat, and throwing in yet another complication. Bored with the monochrome creations, I wanted to work with more than one colour! So after studying a few patterns on how to shape a hat to ones head (and constantly testing what I was making on my own head) I was at it again. To the left is the hat that I made up to fit my head(the pink and brown one).

Amigurumi

Since the end of my yarn has finally been freed from the scarf that I was knitting, I wanted to learn some crochet. Around the internet I've seen all sorts of cute crocheted things called amigurumi. Since the yarn I ordered for a hat hadn't arrived yet, these seemed like the perfect little mini projects to learn crochet.

So I started with a mouse pattern that I found on the net and learned how to single crochet in a spiral, how to do increases and decreases, and what a slip stitch is (as well as how nice it would have been to have something to mark the beginning of my row rather than trying to keep track of the number of stitches).

Using the knowledge that was gained from making the mouse (and a safety pin to mark rows), I then decided to try a bunny pattern. But this one was done in rounds instead of a spiral and confused me completely (I'll have to figure out how to crochet in rounds some time). I ended up with odd shapes rather than spheres, so instead I just said "screw it" and made something up on my own. You can see the results for yourself.

And then lastly I tried to make something that sort of resembled a sheep. It still needs some eyes to see with. I'll have to find something to use for that.