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Pictures to come of the hat after blocking and with whiskers & eyes on.Normally hats don't take me too long to do but this one took some time to do due to learning curve I needed on how to do short rows for the first time. For this hat I used some leftover handspun yarn done by my friend Carey called "Blugly" that she used to create her Mr.Greenjeans sweater from the Fall 2007 issue of knitty.com. At some point when I was doing the short rows the shaping of the mouth looked a lot like a catfish to me and gave me the idea to put some whiskers on it later. When I put the hat on Bailey she insisted that I make her one right now, in pink of course. James who didn't think much of the pattern when I first showed him was a changed man and laughed with glee upon seeing the finished project. He suggested to Bailey that her hat needed to look like a clown fish like the one from Finding Nemo. One quick search for an image of a clown fish she was hooked (ok, that bad pun wasn't done on purpose) on the idea. The list of future projects keep growing and if it doesn't warm up soon, I may use the camel yarn I'm making for some extremely warm socks.
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