Monday Morning Hat Order

This weekend was SO MUCH FUN! I was in insane hat making mode! A customer had ordered 7 hats  (2 for each of her 3 children, and 1 for her niece) and as it's suddenly really cold in the morning I had to get rushing to finish up 5 hats for her! (The other 2 are for a baby due on Boxing Day, so no rush there!)

And here they are!

Pirate Sock Monkey Hat (made to fit a toddler)

Hello Kitty-ish Hat # 1 (made to fit a child)

Brim Hat with Flower (made to fit a child)
Here's the pattern I modified to make this hat

Hello Kitty-ish Hat # 2 (made to fit a toddler)

Mohawk Hat (made to fit a toddler)

Mohawk Hat (made to fit a toddler)

I'm really happy with how all of them turned out, I think the mohawk one is going to become a staple in my store soon, it's a great fun hat! And it could be made girlier using a different colour scheme  and I'm hoping to offer different options for the applique on the side.

I'm also very happy to have these out of the way because I still have a bunch of more commissions to get made... I think there are 4 more hats to make, a set of owl amigurumi, and some slippers... I think that's it for now... I need to double check my list lol

I'm also finding myself in this weird place where pricing is concerned. I have a VERY bad habit of underpricing my work, I do great work, it's well made, creative and made with love, I love to crochet... but I also need to make some money off of it... Yarn costs money, my time costs money and I'm finally starting to realize I'm really undercutting myself in a lot of instances... I think once all these commissions are done, J and I will be sitting down and coming up with some styles I want to focus on and a pricing guide. I don't want to stop doing commissions, I LOVE THEM, they give me the chance to make things that I've never thought to do myself, but I need to be firm and try to get the prices I think my work and I deserve...

Hats, hats and more hats... that I need to make

I have suddenly found myself overwhelmed with hat commissions! I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but it did! People love custom hats and I really can't complain about making them! I do tend to get REALLY anxious though when making kid hats, adults are easy, I just have to size to fit my tiny head, or J's larger noggin... kids though... they are weird sized... and of course 8 of the 9 hats I need to make right now are for kids! I'm being very paranoid and proactive though, and giving the mother who ordered 6 of the 9 hats for her three kids the shell of a hat for each to try on them before I start the decorating. I want to ensure that all my research paid off and they'll fit properly, especially since a bunch of the hats have mohawks which take quite a bit of work!

Here's what's going to be on my hook for the next little bit -looks like my own ideas are going to have to wait :)

1. black and grey mohawk hat with skull and crossbones applique
2. grey sock monkey hat with mohawk and eyepatch
3. hello kitty inspired white and pink hat (1)
4. hello kitty inspired white and pink hat (2)
5. pink brimmed hat with flower applique
6. brown sock monkey hat with mohawk
7. football hat
8. green mushroom (mario style) hat
9. basic black mercerized cotton beanie

And yup... hats will be my life for the next few weeks... I'm hoping I can buckle down and get them done ASAP so I can move on to finally finishing my slipper sizing and work on a surprise project :) as well as some owls I was commissioned to make for Xmas. I also just found out that I might be getting 2 more hat commissions!

Mood Scarf - Month 2 - August 2012

I'm a few days late posting... I had an oddly social weekend and therefore didn't get around to taking pictures and posting my scarf update until now! So here it is!!!

The scarf is coming along REALLY nicely! I still don't know what I'm going to do with it though it's looking like the scarf is going to need some edging because all those colour changes, mean the edges are SOO uneven! I still love it though! and I'm happy to report that at the moment, yellow is the colour that's there the most, apparently at 8pm at night I'm not as depressed/angry as I thought I was :)