Lots of Tapestry Cotton Hats

It seems like it's been just about forever since I've had time to post anything.....
For anyone curious...the Holiday Market at the Farmer's Market went OK. Didn't earn as much as last year. I am most grateful to a family who each wanted one of my hats for Christmas!!! That sure made me feel good to know folks like my hats!

Here are a few things I've made the past several months:

The hats are all 100% cotton  yarn called "I Love This Cotton" from Hobby Lobby.

 I call this one "Mountain Sunrise" as I was trying to recreate the colors of a sunrise over the mountains near my home.

I used a variety of stitches including single crochet, spike stitches and linen stitch.

I priced the cotton hats a few dollars higher than the acrylic hats as the cotton costs quite a bit more and I've used a lot more detailed crochet techniques which take longer to make.

This one is a fairly simple tapestry crochet hat. Yep, I got the mountain thing going on again. I do like mountains.

 This one uses tapestry crochet combined with spike stitches. Kind of reminds me of a forest fire on the mountains.....

 And here is a nice tapestry crochet heart hat....took me forever to figure out how to get the heart shape somewhat even. Trouble is I don't draw out a pattern ahead of time, just have an idea in my head and I give it a go...and...rip it out if it doesn't look the way I wanted to.....But I think it turned out pretty nice.

This one is my favorite. It's a bit pale colored. But if you look close you can see it's pink tulips! My FAVORITE flower!!! hint hint hint.....

Net Book Sleeve out of Katia Samba

Well, I loved this beautiful yarn the moment I saw it in a beautiful LYS near a hotel I was staying at: Pins & Needles in Ruckersville, VA....I bought 4 balls and after playing with it for a year or so realized I didnt' have enough to make a shrug or small top so I made several mitered squares and then tried to figure out what I could turn the squares into....this is the result...used about 112 grams of yarn: figured that out by weighing the finished product minus the weight of the stnap. size G 4mm hook.

Super easy to make this...if you know how to crochet a mtered square; just go until they are about 8 inches square and block the squares as it will make them much more even. Then after blocking single crochet around each square...Slip stitch 4 together to make one big square. Then fold in the corners like a big envelope and slip stitch the bottom 3 triangles together leaving the fourth open for the flap...What could be easier????

I still have a ball and a half left....I am considering adding a strap to change it to a purse; but am not sure I want to do that as I was thinking of making some little amulet bags for the farmer's market out of it.

PLease let me know what you think!!!!