more bizarre knitting
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jainaHey look, another finished object! (That I started in October, but nevermind that.)
It's a baby chicken hat!
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The story is this: my BFF from grad school collects chickens. (Er, figurines and stuff like that, not actual live chickens.) She and her husband had their first baby in October, so of course I had to make their little boy a wee chicken hat. The earflap hat pattern generator worked great! I decided not to put ties on the earflaps since I worry about young babies and string-type things.
Main yarn is KnitPicks Shine Sport in Cream, knit on size 6 circs. The orange and red yarn is just scraps of Cotton Classic, the yarn I use for my Baby Jayne hats. I double-crocheted the comb on the top and made a garter-stitch bias square for the beak, then sewed it on. The eyes are black and white felt that are sewn on. (I thought about making some bobbles for googly eyes, but was defeated by my lack of black and white cotton yarn.) I'm really not too sure about the eye placement, but I could only fiddle with it for so long. :-P For the photos, it's being modeled by one of our Darth Vader snow globes covered in a scrap piece of black wool.
I hope they like it, and that it fits!
It's a baby chicken hat!
. The story is this: my BFF from grad school collects chickens. (Er, figurines and stuff like that, not actual live chickens.) She and her husband had their first baby in October, so of course I had to make their little boy a wee chicken hat. The earflap hat pattern generator worked great! I decided not to put ties on the earflaps since I worry about young babies and string-type things.
Main yarn is KnitPicks Shine Sport in Cream, knit on size 6 circs. The orange and red yarn is just scraps of Cotton Classic, the yarn I use for my Baby Jayne hats. I double-crocheted the comb on the top and made a garter-stitch bias square for the beak, then sewed it on. The eyes are black and white felt that are sewn on. (I thought about making some bobbles for googly eyes, but was defeated by my lack of black and white cotton yarn.) I'm really not too sure about the eye placement, but I could only fiddle with it for so long. :-P For the photos, it's being modeled by one of our Darth Vader snow globes covered in a scrap piece of black wool.
I hope they like it, and that it fits!
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