Beanie Bonnets!

It's been at least 20 years since I picked up a crochet hook and if you can recall in my introductory blog I said it was one of the first things I learned to do as a young girl (outside of school/home crafts) . . .

Every now and again (and it's been less and less these days it seems) my youngest niece and I have Auntie Day - she's the only girl in a family of four boys . . . and I make sure it's JUST her and I.  We've done a LOT of stuff - including one of my favourite things, buying her new shoes (because that's my shtick - and I love the look on her face when I buy them for her) - but one of the others is doing crafts with her. 

Shopping in Walmart the other day (looking for a new bra) (and you might wonder how I ended up in the yarn isle but I did) I started to think about a pom pom carpet I'd promised my niece we would make together, found some yarn AND one of those thingies that you make pom poms with . . . but lo and behold - further distraction and I found a "package" of crochet hooks, some large needles and a book of patterns which looked easy but no price.  Because I'd given all of my knitting needles and hooks to one of my older nieces just last year (and she's using them) I didn't want to appear ungenerous and ask for them back so I inquired at the cash register of the cost and because the package was only $20.00 I bought them. 

I got home and started making pom poms (I didn't want to look stupid in front of my 8 year old niece) and truly disliked the way they looked with the yarn I had chosen (cotton yarn and not a synthetic) so they weren't puffy enough and when I made them full enough and tried to tie them I kept breaking the yarn so I kiboshed that idea . . . the yarn sat for a couple of days before I realized there was a beanie pattern in the book with the crochet hooks (yet one of my other nieces is expecting a baby girl any day now) and I started to make one - here it is - SO cute!

Which inspired me to make three more until my hands hurt!

 

Here's the little Man in this hat! he's just a tiny baby - three months old!

 

 

I'm now on a mission to crochet more (because I have nothing better to do) LOL!

Would you crochet if you knew how?

TOTAL COST:  Yarn $2.00 per Hat/Hooks & Pattern $20.00
TOTAL TIME: 1 HOUR/Hat