Two hats

[magid]

I had more black cotton yarn left after making the film hat I posted last month, and decided to use that with a two-toned blue yarn of the same material for a small hat. I had wanted to have more of a brim, but ran out of black yarn (managing to get two hats, albeit smallish, from two skeins of yarn felt like I was getting away with something). The triple crochets around the side were for venting, since I had been thinking of this as a summery hat, though perhaps it would be better with a ribbon woven in instead.




And I finally made the sun hat I've been thinking of for months. Instead of regular yarn, I cut up dead T-shirts, spiraling up the trunk to the sleeves for one length, and up each sleeve for two more, all half an inch to an inch wide. This generated large amounts of cotton bits that look remarkably like really bad dandruff. Once I'd cut some shirts up, I started crocheting them, using my largest hook (15.75 mm), which took some getting used to. Again, this generated more cotton dandruff (which is why I needed to run the hat through a laundry cycle when it was done). I wasn't sure how much I'd need, so I crocheted what I had, then cut up another T-shirt. I ended up using most of four white shirts and one blue shirt, which felt really useful, turning clothing that had become not useful into something new and exciting.

The only part I wish had come out a bit differently is that the patterns on the original tees tend to be curled into the inside of the 'yarn' rather than the outside, so they rarely show. The last white tee I used turned out to be thinner than some of the others, which ended up being useful to helping the brim turn up, as I decreased stitches. And if it's really sunny, I can turn the brim down, as in the last photo.