newbie's post - crochet a cat hat

[betheliz.livejournal.com]

Hi all! I just found this community. A brief little bit about me. I'm from the midwest (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas/Kansas City). A few months ago I fulfilled a long time dream and moved to Alaska. I do lots of different crafts: scrapbook, card making, crocheting, sewing, cross stitching, etc. Actually I took sewing lessons as a kid (my mom is an incredible seamstress and quilter), but I just got back into it recently. I got a sewing machine for Christmas, set it up after the move, and went to town. I'm also a children's librarian, Sunday School teacher, former VBS teacher, former camp counselor, former afterschool coordinator, etc. All that is by way of saying that I have done nearly every craft aimed at children. As a total side note, I'm also the creator/maintainer (albeit very hand off maintainer) of cardmakers.

And on to the crafty part of this. A couple of weeks ago I came upon, and was enthralled by, by these directions to crochet a cat hat. I grabbed some scrap yarn and set to crocheting. I've now made a bunch of them for my cat, coworkers' cats, etc. No cat really wears them for any length of time, but they're a great deal of fun.


Pictures turned out blurrier than intended.

In which my cat wonders what I am doing to her.


Yeah, she's not very happy about the hat.


More pictures available on my flickr

Thanks for humoring the new girl!