Crochet Mouse Chase around the Hat

I just love coming up with these quirky hats.
Here is my latest.
It's the Mouse chase to the cheese, via the track around the hat.

You can find the hat pattern here.

Crochet Basic Hat and Neck Warmer

To make the basic crown, I use this guide

I did add an extra increase round as my yarn may have been a bit finer than the one suggested and I also used a smaller hook.

Once I had the crown established I worked the griddle st (the up and down st) around the hat as I had used it in the neck warmer.

I finished off with a row of hdc, a row of 1 sc and ch 3 around, then I worked 5 sc in the ch 3, around and I finished off with a picot in the centre of the 5 sc around.

The flower was one I made up, as I wanted one that I could centre a button in and hang some jewellry from the button. I am particulary pleased with the hanging jewellry and I intend to work with this style more often.

You will find more about the neck warmer here.

I'm also showing off my new head model here.

Its the first time I have used her. She is a bit on the ugly side, but I can always take photo shots like the first in of this post. I picked her up at a garage sale for around $5.00. Yes she came quite cheap and willing.

Crochet a magnet......360 of them

What would you do with 360 magnets?

Well I have made a start making fridge magnets.

I was told they scratch the fridge so they all have to be covered to ensure they do not scratch. I have found that if I cover them too much they start to slip, even though they are a powerful little magent.

This is how I made an egg, I can't decide on a good desgin for the bacon as yet.

These are some patterns I aquired from the internet.

Except for the tea pot and tea cup, I made them up as I went along.

I'm not too happy with the cup as yet, but I suppose I have about 355 more shots at it.

These are a hoot of a magnet.

Crochet Monkey/Knitted Cow

This is how the story goes.

Deb and Don pictured below, bought a plush cow as a gift for a baby.

They put me to the test to see how good my crochet was and asked if I could copy it.

So I took a photo of the which is below.

OK, so this is the cow, it is a machine knit and oh so cute.

I knew it was a cow to begin with, but it reminded me of the pet monkey, Penny from lost in space had. Her monkey had those little horn things on it's head too.

OK, so by this time I'm thinking monkey (DERR).

Now this is the out come of the cow. Cow come monkey. I didn't allow for the shrinkage in the arms and legs once they were stuffed, so they are a little short.

Now to further my stupidity, I just did an image search for Penny's monkey and it didn't have horns, more like large pointed ears.