"...Toothy..."*

Custom dragon and shark

I received photos in my email inbox! Thank you Kelani and Kehanu for these pictures and for becoming Little frog hat owners. Hope you had a great time paint balling.

When people mention paint balling to me, all I can think of is the time I went paint balling and got shot on the palm side of my wrist. I had on long sleeves, but the impact was strong enough to break my skin. Which left me bleeding and with a fairly sore wrist. So please be careful out there.

* This blogs title is taken from a comment by Winky(I have assigned him a new nickname, we will see how long it will last or if it is rejected.) He called these hats toothy... which they are. When I hear the word toothy it makes me smile. Thanks Winky!

A horse of course...

Horse(front view)

I was looking through my hat photos and came across this. This horse was created after much pondering on which colors to use. I made it with brown, black and tan. It has been a while since I have seen a horse up close, so hopefully I have captured the shape of the ears correctly.

Horse (side view)

I went with a light color mane because I wanted it to stand out. This is the first one I made, and I am still not sure if I want to decrease the strands in the mane or not. It has been packed away for a while now. I think it is time to take it out and rethink the design, or maybe just create more like it in different sizes.

Bear... hood.

I just realized that I posted a picture of the bear hooded towel, but did not write a blog about it. I only made two of these bears. Using the same color as the monkeys I decided to try something different.

I am still debating on making more of these. There are four ears that I was going to use that are sitting on the side because I decided I wanted a different shape and color combination. These big ears remind me of a mouse. I guess it could be a big brown mouse. I will just leave it up to the viewers imagination...

Custom dragon.

Sketch of spikes

I have had requests for dragons before. People seem to just ended up with Dino hats. So when I was presented with a finalized order for a dragon... I just could not resist the challenge and spent the last few days finishing it. I managed to cram in pattern making, cutting and sewing. Luckily during the order process I was already working on the patterns.

Custom Dragon(side view)

And although it is not completely finished I took the final pictures of it. The final hand stitching is of the lining. That will happen tonight or tomorrow morning.

This hat has a lot going on. It has custom spikes that have detailing stitches to create a web look. Two rows of spikes that form a V pattern. And teeth on the earflaps. Even though I thought it would be too much on the hat, I went with what was requested. In the end I really like how it looks.

Custom Dragon(back view)

I'm so happy how it turned out that I really wanted to blog it today!