I don't often share too many of my crochet projects here. Mostly because I don't have time, and also because I think of this blog as rather a story telling kind of place for me. But today I have just been so preoccupied with this project I decided to write about it as a kind of vent.
A vent as in --What the heck was I thinking?!?
Okay. So here is a fine little cloche hat, something for some reason I have always wanted to make (and to wear). The pattern was easy, it was fun to use two threads held together (which I have never tried before), and the shape of the hat is just right. So, the problem? Well, isn't it--glaringly--obvious? Look at those colors!! It hurts to look at. This is not a hat for an adult woman to wear. It is more the cotton candy colors of a six year old girl. What possessed me to buy this yarn? (Which wasn't cheap, by the way--it's a silk/merino blend.)
I also bought a skein of bright orange yarn the same day. What was I thinking??
Ak.
I am pretty sure I will never really wear this hat. After I get over my disappointment, or whatever it is I am feeling about this thing, I might like to make another one in a sensible tan and brown.
If you are reading this blog, and know someone who would like this hat, please let me know, and I will send it to you.
Phew!
So--now that that is out. I want to mention something else crochet related. It reminded me of this:
These little cactuses grow on my back porch. I love to keep cacti here, and now have several that have outgrown their pots and have had to be moved elsewhere. Sooo--you will see why I loved the little crafty work below so much that I had to take a picture of it in the shop.
These are so happy--retro mugs and crochet cacti!! I am definitely going to try to make some of my own crochet cacti! And I won't be doing them in hot pink and bubblegum blue either. I'm all for desert tones right now, as might be expected after that last venture.
