Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Clarice the Doe Hats

Last year, my crochet friend, Chelsea over at A Chick w/ Sticks, sent me a few of her patterns to go over and look for typos, and maybe make a few to try it out.  You may remember the post I wrote about her fabulous Turkey Hat.  Well, one of the patterns she sent me was for Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Clarice the Doe.  It has taken me a while to go over them, and for this I feel really badly.  But recently, I have been making some newborn hats for some of my friends who are having Christmas babies and I instantly thought of Chelsea's pattern.

I feel in love with this pattern!  (Which you can find here!) And I cranked out a couple of the hats just the way she designed them.  When I first get a pattern, I like to do it just so as to get a feeling for the design and to learn new techniques and get ideas.  Then I decided that I was going to change it up a little to make it look a little more like the characters in the movie I love so much.  This is what I came up with:

If you crochet and are interested head over to her site and get these patterns!  Here are a few of the changes that I made:

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

For Rudolph, I changed the nose.  Instead of having it just the red nose, I put the white background behind it.  I also made his antlers little stubs since I made this for a newborn, I thought the reindeer should look like a baby too.

Clarice the Doe

For Clarice, I also changed the nose like I did for Rudolph.  As well as I didn't use the Clarice ears that were in the pattern, I used the Rudolph ears for her too because I thought they were just so dang cute!

Anyway, I didn't do too many changes.  I just wanted it to have a little of my personal touch, I guess.

If you are interested in buying a Rudolph or Clarice Hat, here are my Etsy listings:

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer $25
Clarice the Doe $25
Both Hats in a Package Deal! $48

Happy Crocheting!

-Cat Pin It

Newsboy Cap Adventures

A few weeks ago, I was on the lookout for the perfect "newsboy" style cap pattern.  There was no pattern that had all the features that I wanted!  So a found a bunch of different ones with parts that I liked and then put them together and added a few features that were just me.

Here was my first try, and I thought it was a little boxy looking (there are on buttons, but I did add some later):

 Here was my second attempt, and I did sell this one:

I make and sell these for $20 a piece. By request, I can add flowers, buttons, etc.  I need to make some more girly ones to post here too...  If you would like to custom order one of these please email me and we can set something up.

-Cat

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Website Kick Off Giveaway!!

To celebrate the kick off of this blog, we are hosting a fantastic giveaway!  The Worsted Crochet Blog is giving away not one, not two, not even three... but FOUR super fun hats and a "Man Band" headband!!

 Woman's adult Grey Wrap Around. 

Puppy Hat - Size 3-6 months

Newborn Baby Elf Cap

Baby Girl Crazy Fun Hat 6-9 months

Camo "Man Band" (Last year we made these for all the men in our family and they LOVE them)

To enter this giveaway:

Mandatory:  Leave a comment on which hats are your favorites and which one you would want if you won.

Additional entries (optional) Please leave a separate comment for each one:

• Take a look around this site and comment on what you would like to see more of here.
• Join this blog by "Following" it.
• Join us on Facebook:  Click here!
• Mention this giveaway on Facebook, twitter, and/or Blog about it.
• Snag our button and put it on your blog.

You can also get an extra entry for every friend you get to "Join" this blog-- just mention it in a comment.  Our goal is to get at least 50 followers in the next couple weeks.  When we reach 100, I will personally giveaway one of my beloved Sock Monkey Hats in the size of the winner's choice.

This blog is for anyone who loves to crochet, can't crochet but love to look or buy, and for those who want to learn.  In this economy, crocheting is a less expensive hobby than most, super fun, and right now homemade stuff is IN.  So come join us on this adventure!!

-Cat

Contest ends Wednesday, Nov 16th at 11:59 pm.  Good Luck!!!

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