Change it up with appliques
While I struggle myself with making a hat look fashionable my girl totally rocks them as you can see here:

She’s currently in the “I can do it myself Mommy!” phase and insists on dressing herself. She’s still getting the hang of shirts and pants but has mastered hats. The cute thing is she puts them on without caring where the brim is and most of the time it ends up on the side or back. Which makes her look even more like a fashionista.
Last week I whipped up a basic crochet hat without a brim.

While it looks cute itself I wanted to sass it up a bit and decided to add a little butterfly applique.

I think it gives it a finishing touch. The great thing about the applique is that it could be changed out pretty easily making an old hat turn into a new(ish) hat!


While doing some spring cleaning I came across a box of candles and some craft supplies that included some glue on jewels. I remembered my sister’s wedding favors and how she slaved for hours gluing on beads and pearls in flower shapes to candles and thought it would be fun to try it out with the jewels I found.














As a knitter I have tons of patterns that hope to make someday printed and organized into 3-ring binders (this was the days before 