David's Hat Factory

So, I still haven't come up with an official name for my new slouchy hat design, but I have been working on some new multicolor stripe designs for the hats. For these stripe patterns I have chosen a set of 12 colors. I have codenamed this list of colors as "Casino Royal". This codename is not official for the intended designs I plan to produce in the future. I am probably going to change over to some other weird movie theme set for the hats I'm going to produce. Casino Royal just happened to be the latest movie I watched when I started coming up with these designs (for those who don't know, I sometimes associate my designs around movie themes or movie characters because I love movies so much). Anyway I thought I would post these color picks and stripe patterns so my fans can get a small peek into my design mind. Please do not ask me for the actual stitch patterns for my slouchy hats and no I will not reveal my method of color picking. It is a trade secret. **smile**


1. Antique Teal
2. Black
3. Forest Green
4. Red
5. Sungold
6. Antique White
7. Toasted Almond
8. Soft Blue
9. Terra Cotta
10. Dark Olive
11. Burnt Pumpkin
12. Linen

CR015
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Round 1: Red
Round 2: Antique White
Round 3: Antique White
Round 4: Red
Round 5: Toasted Almond
Round 6: Terra Cotta
Round 7: Toasted Almond
Round 8: Sungold
Round 9: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 10: Red
Round 11: Toasted Almond
Round 12: Forest Green
Rounds 13-16: Terra Cotta

Drawstring: Solid terra cotta.

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CR014
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Round 1: Dark Olive
Round 2: Forest Green
Round 3: Dark Olive
Round 4: Sungold
Round 5: Antique White
Round 6: Sungold
Round 7: Forest Green
Round 8: Antique Teal
Round 9: Antique Teal
Round 10: Linen
Round 11: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 12: Red
Rounds 13-16: Antique White

Drawstring: Solid antique white

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CR013
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Round 1: Black
Round 2: Antique White
Round 3: Forest Green
Round 4: Soft Blue
Round 5: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 6: Red
Round 7: Forest Green
Round 8: Toasted Almond
Round 9: Dark Olive
Round 10: Toasted Almond
Round 11: Red
Round 12: Antique White
Rounds 13-16: Toasted Almond

Drawstring: Solid toasted almond.

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CR012
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Round 1: Black
Round 2: Antique Teal
Round 3: Sungold
Round 4: Soft Blue
Round 5: Toasted Almond
Round 6: Forest Green
Round 7: Terra Cotta
Round 8: Antique Teal
Round 9: Black
Round 10: Linen
Round 11: Red
Round 12: Antique White
Rounds 13-16: Soft Blue

Drawstring: Solid soft blue.

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CR011
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Round 1: Red
Round 2: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 3: Sungold
Round 4: Antique Teal
Round 5: Sungold
Round 6: Antique White
Round 7: Terra Cotta
Round 8: Linen
Round 9: Red
Round 10: Sungold
Round 11: Linen
Round 12: Terra Cotta
Rounds 13-16: Linen

Drawstring: Solid linen

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CR010
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Round 1: Black
Round 2: Antique White
Round 3: Toasted Almond
Round 4: Red
Round 5: Red
Round 6: Terra Cotta
Round 7: Terra Cotta
Round 8: Linen
Round 9: Terra Cotta
Round 10: Forest Green
Round 11: Sungold
Round 12: Sungold
Rounds 13-16: Red

Drawstring: Solid red.

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CR009
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Round 1: Linen
Round 2: Black
Round 3: Forest Green
Round 4: Toasted Almond
Round 5: Antique Teal
Round 6: Forest Green
Round 7: Sungold
Round 8: Linen
Round 9: Black
Round 10: Dark Olive
Round 11: Dark Olive
Round 12: Dark Olive
Rounds 13-16: Sungold

Drawstring: Solid sungold.

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CR008
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Round 1: Forest Green
Round 2: Red
Round 3: Black
Round 4: Antique White
Round 5: Linen
Round 6: Toasted Almond
Round 7: Red
Round 8: Forest Green
Round 9: Black
Round 10: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 11: Terra Cotta
Round 12: Forest Green
Rounds 13-16: Antique Teal

Drawstring: Solid antique teal.

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CR007
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Round 1: Linen
Round 2: Antique Teal
Round 3: Linen
Round 4: Black
Round 5: Dark Olive
Round 6: Dark Olive
Round 7: Forest Green
Round 8: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 9: Sungold
Round 10: Toasted Almond
Round 11: Terra Cotta
Round 12: Sungold
Round 13-16: Linen

Drawstring: Solid linen

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CR006
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Round 1: Red
Round 2: Black
Round 3: Terra Cotta
Round 4: Black
Round 5: Sungold
Round 6: Soft Blue
Round 7: Sungold
Round 8: Terra Cotta
Round 9: Sungold
Round 10: Terra Cotta
Round 11: Antique White
Round 12: Antique White
Rounds 13-16: Dark Olive

Drawstring: Solid dark olive.

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CR005
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Round 1: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 2: Black
Round 3: Linen
Round 4: Sungold
Round 5: Sungold
Round 6: Forest Green
Round 7: Toasted Almond
Round 8: Burnt Pumpkin
Round 9: Black
Round 10: Sungold
Round 11: Dark Olive
Round 12: Black
Rounds 13-16: Red

Drawstring: Solid red.

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CR004
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Round 1: Red
Round 2: Sungold
Round 3: Antique White
Round 4: Forest Green
Round 5: Antique White
Round 6: Antique White
Round 7: Toasted Almond
Round 8: Antique White
Round 9: Antique Teal
Round 10: Red
Round 11: Black
Round 12: Soft Blue
Rounds 13-16: Antique White

Drawstring: Solid antique white.

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CR003
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Rounds 1-2: Soft Blue
Rounds 3-4: Toasted Almond
Rounds 5-6: Antique White
Rounds 7-8: Burnt Pumpkin
Rounds 9-10: Linen
Rounds 11-12: Black
Rounds 13-16: Antique White

Drawstring: Solid antique white.


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CR002
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Rounds 1-2: Antique Teal
Rounds 3-4: Toasted Almond
Rounds 5-6: Sungold
Rounds 7-8: Toasted Almond
Rounds 9-10: Antique White
Rounds 11-12: Soft Blue
Rounds 13-16: Toasted Almond

Drawstring: Solid toasted almond.

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CR001
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Rounds 1-2: Sungold
Rounds 3-4: Forest Green
Rounds 5-6: Antique White
Rounds 7-8: Linen
Rounds 9-10: Antique White
Rounds 11-12: Forest Green
Rounds 13-16: Sungold

Drawstring: Solid sungold.

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You have probably heard me mention in the recent past that I have been working on a new hat style created and designed by me. Well, good news!! I've finished making up about seven of them and I will be getting some photos taken of them very soon and will begin adding them to the shop. The best part is that these new hats are going to be a part of my first model specific designs geared for direct custom ordering. That is because these new hats are made in solid colors and the first custom order option for these hats will be for any solid color you choose for the design. I will be working stripes into these designs at a later time.

PRICE CHANGES: This is the only mention of a future price change I have planned for my 2X2 rib pattern beanies for men. The price on those hats will be increasing sometime over the next few months after I have done some maintenance work at David's Hat Factory. What this means to you right now is that those hats are now currently available at a great bargain so you should grab one or two up before the price change. I have no specific date for the price adjustment but it will happen before the fall season of 2010. They make great gifts, are loved by everyone who has bought one, and it is never to late or too early for any season to get one or give as a gift.

Well that is the latest update from your favorite hat maker at David's Hat Factory. Hopefully I'll get a sneak peek photo of the new hats up soon.

Great news I fixed my laptop. It took several scans of my hard drive with SuperAntiSpyWare, MalwareBytes, and my Eset Nod32 and then a brief internet connection troubleshooting with internet explorer to finally rid the virus and get the computer back online. As far as I can tell my laptop is completely clean of the virus and is running just fine. This makes me very happy for many reasons.... First, now I don't have to spend unjustified money to buy a new computer right now even though I still want that Asus Netbook. Second, I now have my favorite computer back in full operation with everything I use on it and still set up just the way I like it so I don't have to worry about setting everything up on a new computer or having to do a much feared factory restoration and then install all my software again. Third, everything feels normal again. I did not realize how important my computer is to me until I wasn't able to use it to it's full potential. I really need to get a back up of all my files incase I have another virus attack. I need to get on that pronto!

I have a gateway laptop that I have been using for years... at least five years or maybe six. Last night I was surfing on a now known sketchy traffic exchange website and stumbled on some crazy website that installed one of those fake antivirus programs on my laptop. I should have known better than to keep surfing on that site but I didn't realize the danger I was putting my faithful old laptop in. I was just trying to gain some exposure for my my hat shop.

If blogexplosion would have approved my blog (I don't know what their problem is) then this probably never would have happened, but you can't ever be sure about things like that.

Luckily I have been sucessful in removing most of the virus that my laptop has on it, however I am not able to access the internet with it. I can thankfully still access windows explorer and will be able to get all of my important website files, pictures, music, and documents off of the hard drive before I attempt to restore the computer. And luckily I still have my desktop computer so I can still easily maintain my blogs and website.... So continue ordering as you wish. I still have access to the internet and if worse comes to worst I have my internet capable cellphone which I am using to type this post... so this little problem I have with my laptop being handicapped will not leave me stranded out in the water with no way of getting to dry land. It's a good thing I always keep at least one backup computer incase something like this happens.

I am making plans to get a new laptop (most likely a netbook) to replace my laptop but I need to shop around at different places to see where the good deals are. Asus has a cool 12 inch screen netbook and I believe my local BestBuy may have some in stock and I have been thinking about getting one so I may go out today and check them out. I may even get one today since I now need a new portable computer...

This kinda sucks because that was my favorite computer and now I can't get on the web with it but I will manage until I can sort the problem out.

Maybe I'll have that new netbook to brag about soon.

I got bored with the old template. So I've updated to a new dark themed template. I kinda like it. I especially love the skull background. I forget where I found that at but I think it's pretty cool and fits me well since many of my past templates have also had skull backgrounds. I may play around with the colors a bit and do another update soon but I like what I've got for now.

In other news, I am catching up on orders and I am also working on some new slouchy hats. I think I may have already mentioned the slouchy hats before but I don't remember haha. I have to come up with a cool name for them before I post them on this blog and add them to my hat shop. Oh and there are going to be three versions of it which I think is going to be really cool. There will be a slightly slouchy version, a super slouchy version, and a seriously slouchy version. I am currently working on the slightly slouchy versions now and I am doing one in all of my favorite solid colors. I think I have about 8 of them finished and I went out and bought more yarn last week so I could do more and hopefully I'll get them finished this week by Thursday so that I can get some photos taken of them and start getting them posted.

Well I need to stop typing and get to crocheting. Those hats aren't going to make themselves haha.