A Hat A Day

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Kangkan Rabha by Annie Noble for L’officiel Hommes Malaysia Magazine December 2023

who needs a real human baby when you could have rock son with jaunty hat

There is also a crochet pattern available HERE

My dad’s poor hat is hanging on for dear life. He thrifted this thing 12 years ago, which means it’s probably 15 at least. For christmas I patched up a giant tear across the front and he immediately ripped it again. Less than a week later. The fabric is literally disintegrating. I repaired it once more, this time with yellow patches. I plan to keep going until the whole thing is covered, keeping an embroidered tally on the inside of how many times I’ve fixed it :) Each patch will be a different sashiko pattern, making it into a little sampler.

functional chess set hat by avgrannan

Chinese emperors primarily wore two types of headwear: "liú miǎn旒冕" or "miǎn guàn冕冠"(ceremonial crown with hanging beads) and "yì shàn guān翼善冠" (winged crown), with the distinctive "rabbit-ear" wings characteristic. While qinwang亲王(prince) and junwang郡王(commandery prince) were permitted to wear yìshànguān, their versions featured significantly fewer decorative elements compared to the emperor’s.

I am particularly taken with the gradient managed via green yarn scraps. Past-me is no stronger on good color use than present-me, but has had some moments.

After checking in each and every bin under my desk and not finding this stupid pompom, I finally checked a box on my desk and yep... there it is... well it was good I found it finally, because the pompom matches PERFECTLY with this yarn.

(See the baby really exists, I’m not just knitting hats for my llama.)

!! My first ever cable project !!

DM me to ask questions or choose a hat! I'll be updating this post to let everyone know which hats are still available, and which has been bought.

The pattern is nice but... 1) that was so time consuming for such a small thing and 2) despite coming from a well-known knitting company in my country, it was impossible to achieve what the hat was supposed to look like in the first place, I'm even surprised I managed to make it look alright

[◉°] badbaddiem_

Hat pattern is the Citrus Hat by Laura Treadway (knit to 5" instead of 6"). Strawberry pattern is Strawberry by Linda Dawkins. Yarn is Red Heart Comfort in Red (Shimmer).