Update time from the crazy hat lady

 As you see the winter months were filled with hat making and I've happily given most away already. the green monster is for a sweet young fella who touched my heart last year but we've not had the chance to make contact to deliver it yet. (This hat has now gone off to warm the sweet young mans head, his mom picked it up and sent me a photo of him wearing it and giving me the thumbs up, which warmed my heart greatly)

 This one was made for our grandson, I think I will make myself one next winter.

 This one was crocheted for a dear friend of mine. The fun part was I gave her the bag of hats to choose which one she wanted and she chose the one I had made special for her, how cool is that...

and this one went to her four year old granddaughter, thank goodness I had a small hat that she liked.

This one I scooped for me.

 The one and only Beaver hat I will ever make was for our grandson. Apparently the teeth get in the way of seeing, but it is cute, even if he has to wear it sideways to see where he is going.

This one my daughter fell in love with but as it was a bit small in height I added more rows till it fit right. Luckily I had just enough wool left to do so.

Below are hats I made for my sweet sister, you can see I like variety in materials as well as accent flowers.

Above and below is a reversible hat.

 Also reversible. I forgot to photograph the reverse, but it has the light blue on the inside of the brim. I made the flower as a brooch so it could be taken off when the hat is washed.

This one is not reversible. The underside brim is the same material as the flower. The flower in stitched on through the button.

As one may rightly surmise that I don't make two of a kind, I like to mix up colors and fabrics just to see what will be, and so far those who have received them are delighted, which in turn delights me. I have made a few more, but oops forgot to photograph them before they were given away, oh well.

Having fun with funky hats

A few funky crochet hats I recently made.

 Hubby took me to a sale a few weeks past and helped me dig through bins of yarn. I came home with quite the stash and proceeded to make one of a kind funky fun hats; after all life is too short to wear boring hats.

 Sea Urchin 

 I taught myself to crochet by watching numerous youtube videos last year. It took me a while to find one I could easily follow though with perseverance I did and made an owl hat, but to get good enough to make the owl hat as it was a gift for my daughter-in-law I had to practice what I was learning and made made myself a blue sea urchin hat though having no idea how I got there as I had not the "right needle, or the right yarn" for a project so it ended up being an experiment, which I must say gets lots of compliments.

(This hat is off to warm a wonderful ladies head, thank you Valerie)

I know this hat is pretty standard looking but the flower is my adaptation of one I learned to make by watching  http://youtu.be/XlWt0n0srfA. The yellow of the flower is the learned from video part, the blueish color inbetween the petals in a simple chain stitch looped in as filler and to give a punch of depth and alternative coloration to flower . 

Friendship Muse

A gift for a friend.

 Cute girl owl hat, a gift for daughter-in law.

 Machine and hand stitched denim softie, embroidery, cording, cloth pack, felt heart.

designed and made by Teresa Stieben ©

Gifted to our sweet grandson. I realized after that this reminds me of a storybook character from a book I used to read to my children when they were small, wish I could remember the title of the book.

Lap Quilts

 "A Warm Hug"

 "Butterfly Hug"

Crochet Hats

 Third hat crochet project. A sea urchin hat. Lots of mistakes on this one but I love it and wear it often.

First crochet project, learned by watching youtube videos. Not bad for a first try.
This hat now needs to be added on to as I mistakenly threw it in the wash and shrunk it. Its a soft enough wool that it stretches over my head still but now sits well above my ears. 

refurbished chair textile

 Before and after.