Spikes

No ears this time, it is spikes on the hood.  I played around with the way in which I made these spikes.  I am thinking of making the dino hat in the same manner.  

Dino hood

This towel has been in my to be blogged about pile for a little while now,  really nothing to say about it but.. raaawr!  

Dino hooded towel

The other day I was thinking about how as a child we associate sounds to animals, monsters, insects, etc and use the sounds instead of using the names they have.  But as an adult we tend to use the name if talking about the animal, monster, insect, etc.  I think sometimes the sound associated with the thing is all you need.

Rawr.

Adorable kittens.

I got some pictures sent to me tonight, and got the 'okay' to use them. Jordyn(2y 10m) and Jacie(~1 y-o) are so adorable wearing the Certain(one of my custom made hats.)

Jacie

I think out of the pictures I could choose from, this is my favorite picture.  Jacie is playing with her toy, but still posing for the camera.

Jacie

The hat was ordered for Jacie, but Jordyn is enjoying it also.

Jordyn

Jordyn

I hear there is a photo of Jordyn's and Jacie's dad in the hat.  Maybe he will send it in?  Thank you for the pictures and allowing me to use them.

It is nice to see this hat on a smaller head.  I designed it without a model and it has been changed each time I make one.  I am still looking for a child sized mannequin head to work with.

Floppy ears

A floppy ear creation.  

Bunny hooded towel

Trying to keep the towel from being too difficult to dry, I decided to make the ears a  single ply of material.  It took on a worn bunny look, which I like.

Bunny

When choosing the color I decided to do this light brown instead of a white.  But like all my creations it might end up being made with another color.  

A small break from towels...

There will be more towels in the collection that I have created.  But an inspiration hit me to finish doing a two colored cow.  I have what might be called an obsession with seams.  I like hidden seams, with minimal details.  And I did not want to use a cow printed fabric.  Those are only two of many reasons why this cow has been just an idea and not a reality until now.  Originally in my mind it was a black and white cow.  What I produced was a white and brown cow in Large.

Calf (white and brown) Fd

It was then time to scale it down to a Medium.  The Medium hat did not turn out as I expected it to.  A white stripe down the center was not what I wanted.  And after pinning on the white ear flaps I decided I rather have it brown.  I reworked the Medium pattern and will have to see how it comes out when I make another one.  The next one will have a color change too.

Calf(white and brown) Fp

These I am calling Calf because of the stubby horns I gave them.  Moo moo moo.

Green mood, color mood...

Well here it is... it was only a matter of time that this would appear.

Frog hooded towel

The hooded towel collection would not be complete without a frog.  I stuck to a soft green.   For some reason light green has become my color of choice.  I would not call it my favorite color, since I have never claimed to have a favorite color.  It is more of my favoring certain colors.  As I think about it, I tend to like muted earth tones like grays, blues, browns, greens etc.  But I have been in moods of more vibrant tones of yellows, oranges, pinks, reds...  I will attribute the whole purple and lavender mood I sometimes get into, to my sister.  She once gave me lavender corduroy short pant overalls, which were very comfortable.  That lavender got etched into my mind as being a comfortable color.

Frog

There were three or four choices of greens.  I want this to be my primary hooded towel frog color.  Deciding on the eye color took a while too, the eyes are not the normal black.  I was going to make them blue or even a green but finally decided on a dark brown.