One of the biggest lessons I've learned about making hats is that so-so ideas -- or even bad ideas -- can evolve into hat designs I'm really proud of.
You try something. It doesn't quite work. You make modifications. Or you try something else.
You try something. It doesn't quite work. You make modifications. Or you try something else.
It's about the process as much as the outcome.
My first design submissions were to a crochet magazine. One of the magazine's upcoming themes was a celebration of buttons.
I made a pillbox and sewed on rows and rows of vintage pearl buttons. Unfortunately, all those buttons weighed the hat down and turned the pillbox into a head-hugging beanie. After I removed about half of the buttons, the pillbox kept its shape (see photo above), but I still wasn't happy with it.
OK. Next time I tried a hat with fewer buttons -- just 20 or so around a narrow, terracotta-color crocheted hat band. I liked it a lot. And so did the magazine.
NOTE: This is the eighth in my "Hundreds of Hats Later: What I've Learned" blog posts. Next up: "Beauty in Crochet: Post-Minimalism."
My first design submissions were to a crochet magazine. One of the magazine's upcoming themes was a celebration of buttons.
I made a pillbox and sewed on rows and rows of vintage pearl buttons. Unfortunately, all those buttons weighed the hat down and turned the pillbox into a head-hugging beanie. After I removed about half of the buttons, the pillbox kept its shape (see photo above), but I still wasn't happy with it.
OK. Next time I tried a hat with fewer buttons -- just 20 or so around a narrow, terracotta-color crocheted hat band. I liked it a lot. And so did the magazine.
NOTE: This is the eighth in my "Hundreds of Hats Later: What I've Learned" blog posts. Next up: "Beauty in Crochet: Post-Minimalism."
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