Playing around with the Divine hat and a little bit more.

I asked hubby to take a picture of my new army greens Divine hat, mmm didn't like his pictures, so I tried myself.

How to get an over the head shot? Not quite right. You can see I'm dressed for the occassion too, daggy old tracky, no make-up.

Now let's see here, now that's a bit closer and a better view.
Oh yes this is the shot.

My favourite succulent.

I can feel spring coming on, I put down the hook and cleaned up my out door area.


This is the under cover entertaining area.

This is the fishpond next to the area above.
This is opposite the first picture.
This is my non covered entertaining area.

Opposite the above area. Garden and spa area.

A balcony to catch the views.

My simple yet private back yard.

A succulent in flower.

Divine into Beret/Slouch

Referring back to the Divine free hat pattern, I thought it was more than possible to make a beret/slouch from this lovely st pattern. The first one I made is the light coloured grey one, I kept the increase (with out the repeat of the line before) going until I had 8 dc made in the space, then I continued the edge with the griddle st (up and down st) and slowly decreased as I reached the length desired, I thought that there was too much effort in making up to 8 dc, so the black one was done slightly different. I made one repeat of the 3 dc row and one repeat of the 5 dc, then I began the griddle st, omitting the fpdc in the first row, I made a few rounds of the griddle st before I began to decrease every 10th then 8th st. Decreasing with the griddle st and keeping the pattern correct, I decreased in a dc way, then made another dec in a sc way immediately after, hence decreasing every 10 th st then every 8th st.

Because it was mostly guess work with the decreasing, I finished the black one off with a row of sc to give it a slightly tighter finish.

I made a bow in the griddle st, which really set the grey one off.

Free Hat Pattern-Divine Hat

This free pattern was truly a delight to work with, the pleasure being with the outcome of the Hat. The pattern is written in simple terms. Just remember the space to dc in, is the space, not the eye of the dc, I did this at first and the spiral effect was not there, once I had over come this little hurdle it was on with the pattern and it was a breeze. It's written in US terms and some adjustments were made due to US yarn being different to AU yarn, I used a 5.00 and 6.00 hook, 12 ply yarn, I decreased the height and added a few simple decreases around the last few rows for a better fit with the Au yarn used. Here is the link to the free pattern.

Thanks to Rheatheylia for the pattern, she does have more free patterns with in her site.

The divine hat again

Remember the divine hat I made?

Well here are two more versions of it.

I got the idea for the pink one from ravelry.

And here is another made with 2 strands of 8ply acrylic yarn

This was made for a customer, it's lovely in the light blue.

And more hats

The one on the left is for an order, you can barely see the 2 medium sized gold buttons, set for a bit of extra style.

The one on the right is made of larger granny squares and the yarn used is lovely mohair.

Another mohair set in a dark pink shade.
And here I caved in and used the fluff type yarn that you see every body using.
Baby Blue Fluff

Addition: 3 beret's, I bought a bulk lot of yarn on Sunday 27.08.08, for $40.00 and I have so far made these 3 beret's and a divine hat in light blue, there is so much yarn it will keep me going for ages, not that I didn't have a stock pile already!

A Week of crochet, with picture's

The granny square in hat and scarf from

Pretty in Pink

Beanie Duo. Divine and Cable pattern here.

Blue Sparkles.

Left over yarn from these 2 set's.

Now with just one day to go until I went to the market to sell, I made all of these set's, in about 9 hours.

Burn't Orange Set.

Lovely Lilac

Creamy Dream

Mohair Mayhem

Bright and Soft Red

More than half of these sold. I had made 4 other set's too that I did not take picture's of that were made for an order.