David's Hat Factory

I spent a few hours last night and early this morning perfecting my new Bombshell Beanie for men.  It is a crocheted beanie made with shell stitches and it is super cool and has tons of design options.  I have one model made but I am not ready to give a visual to the world just yet.  I want to make several of them and get them on the site before I make them available for purchase.

I swear I'm not lazy.  I just got busy.  Ok I knew this was going to happen lol.  My goal was to make 2 squares a day for my colorful squares throw that I started working on.  Well as always life intervenes and I got busy and just didn't have the time to make them.  As of today I am 12 squares behind on my goal... but all is not lost I guess.  I can catch back up tomorrow (maybe) if I make myself sit down and do it.  Of course by tomorrow I will be 14 squares behind and so I'll have two more square to add to what I'm already behind on.  We'll see what happens by the end of tomorrow...

I've got two things to blog about in this post.  1.)  I've made two new squares for my colorful granny square throw that I started yesterday.  And 2.)  Today I finished a custom order and sent it out.  I have pictures of the squares and of the two hats I made for Lee in the UK.







I'm only working with a few limited colors on the squares right now trying to do some stash busting (a term used by knitters and crocheters for using up stashed supplies of yarn).  I'll add some more colors after I make a few more squares.

The hats were fun to make.  These are the first two I have made with this particular stripe pattern.  I love the way they came out.  I can't decide which one I like better.  I'm thinking I might have to make a red/black one for myself someday.

Well I'll be back to post two more squares tomorrow and I am working on one of these for my next order.

I never have time to make anything for myself because I'm always so busy doing things.  Well, I stumbled on something that has inspired me to take time out to make something just for me.  I was looking around on craftster and I found THIS!!


Look at all of those beautiful colors.  Anyone who really knows me knows that I am a color freak and this crocheted granny square throw created by adaiha makes me happy every time I look at it.... that is why I stole the picture to put in this blog post LOL.

Well, this adventure is not going to be an easy one for me because as a guy I am very impatient with projects that seem to take forever to complete.  I have been crocheting since I was around 10 years old and I have never once been able to finish a handmade afghan.  I have started many of them over they years but I would always get bored with them before getting very far.  Well there is a "join as you go" method to putting this throw together that I hope will help me along the way with not getting bored.  I wouldn't be able to do this if I had to sew all those squares together... I would end up pulling my hair out of my head before I finished.

The throw pictured above is a 6X6 square but I think I am going to do a 6X8 to make it into a rectangular throw.  That means I will need 48 squares for my throw and my goal is to make 2 squares a day which means I can have all of the squares I'll need in 24 days with the last 2 completed on Thursday, April 8th, 2010.  Then I can start joining the squares and hopefully have the entire thing done by the end of April.

I will be posting pictures of my squares as I make them each day so you'll have to come back each day to check on my progress.  I am excited to see if I can stay motivated to start and finish my very first afghan.  Check out my first two squares below.


And check back tomorrow to see what my next two squares will look like.

When I moved to my new website where I would be hosting my hat shop I told myself I wasn't going to place image branding on my item photos.  I just hate looking at photos online and seeing URL's and logo's pasted all over images.  However I recently had 3 of my beanie pictures stolen from my website and someone was actually trying to sell MY creations.  For this reason I will from now on be putting my hat shop's name and URL along with a makeshift logo that I adopted ages ago on all of my hat pictures.... at least the larger size ones anyway.  It's the only way I know to deter thieves from stealing my work.  So if you are like me and hate seeing text pasted on images I am sorry but I work very hard at making my creations and I have to take measures to protect my work and my reputation and keep my images off of other websites.