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!

Some more hat sets

 

 

Burnt Orange mohair, pop corn in a v shape

 

Burnt orange mohair v shell set

 

Bold gold buttons set this lovely green set off

 

Another softy in red with a bow to go

 

This is a request for a bright coloured childs set

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.

Making Bape Monkey

My first time to upload a video clip.

It may be a bit dark, but it was a bit of fun for me.

It's putting together the pieces that make the Bape Monkey, what I haven't included is the sewing around the facial pieces to make them stand out better.

This is how I displayed them at the market. The sunlight hit the foil and they shone.

The first one I made.

What Makes Your Crochet Stand out In A Crowd?

Individual style and flair, would most probably be, what makes your hand made crochet items stand out.

I ask this as I once again return to the market tomorrow, Sunday 06.07.08.

A lady 3 stalls down from my stall last week, was selling scarves made with that fluffy type yarn you can buy for nick's. I didn't look to see if they were crochet or knit, it wouldn't make a difference any how.

But what I am getting to here is that her scarves were priced at $7.00 each and I am selling my neck warmers for $10.00 each, I originally wanted to sell them for $15.00 each, as they have buttons and use a 50 gm ball of yarn to complete.

So with the thinking cap on for idea's to keep on improving my stall from week to week, I realised that I had to be different and to stand out from other stalls. I feel I have already made myself unique, as I am a one of a kind stall where I am selling.

I did not want to make cheap fluffy scarves as every other stall can have those, I'd rather spend the same amount of time on a unique item with quality yarn.

What I have come up with can still be sold at the bargain price of $10.00, there is a little room for profit, but once a matching hat is sold along with my new scarves, the profit becomes larger.

Here are some pictures of my latest scarves with matching hats.

Off The Top Of My Head and onto My Head

Some times I use a pattern and most of the times I don't.

Some times I get ideas from patterns and change their idea to suit me.

Below are a few examples with out patterns.

I will be taking these and more (gotta make more) to the market this week end.

Crochet Market Sellers

Here are just a few more crocheted items for the market.

I have much more to do and more designs in my head.

I may get around to writing the patterns for the more popular items.

I have not used a pattern for any of these.

I have also made sure that all of the neckwarmers are of a soft and non itchy yarn.

Blue and Sparkly Pink. Reverseable Neckwarmer.

Pretty Blue. Reverseable Neckwarmer.

Brown and Cream Shell. Reverseable Neckwarmer.

Blue with Beige Buttons, wrap around to button up. Neckwarmer.

Burnt Orange and barrel buttons. Neckwarmer.

Blue Flowered Set, hard to see the flowers.

Very Soft Brown Set.

Black and Purple Set.

Very Soft Black Set, I have one in Dark Burgundy too.

Green and Cream Trio Set, not very popular colours, so I have made these a trio.

I really like the green hat, I tried it on and it looks great. I have used a pop corn and puff stitch on these hats.