Prototype Retrofit

I'm quite pleased with myself. I had several other knits that called my name, but I was incredibly disciplined and managed to complete a two-hat commission. I don't normally make copies of my hats, but on occasion I'll do a commission for a friend.

The blue footed booby hat on the right is a prototype. After I made it, I had decided that the hat needed a white brim, so I made another hat for the pattern photograph. But this left me with an extra hat. It's identical to the final product except that the brim isn't white.

I thought I'd retrofit the prototype with a white brim. It seemed like a reasonably easy fix, but turned out to take quite a bit of time. (Doesn't everything...)

Putting the hat back together turned out to be much easier than taking it all apart. Though, the end result was exactly what I hoped for.

Of course I'm a perfectionist, so even when one stitch was a bit off, I'd take everything apart to fix the error. It took until 10pm to weave in all the ends of both hats. But what a good feeling that is! And I'm really proud of how both hats came out.

Blue Footed Boobys For Boobies

At the beginning of July I released the Blue Footed Booby hat pattern. So far we've raised $15 from the patterns towards Kenna's goal for the Susan G. Komen Walk For The Cure.

Kenna has to raise $432 more to reach her goal. I'm super excited for her! If you feel inspired to donate to her cause, you can either buy yourself a copy of the Blue Footed Booby pattern on bearears.com (or ravelry), or if you'd rather, visit her Fundraising Page to donate.

But even if you don't have any spare change around, it would be lovely if the word was spread. You can tweet, facebook, or blog about it. (If anyone chooses to blog about the pattern, feel free to use any of my images from this post, or the July 1st post.)

Kenna has less than a month to reach her goal. I'm really rooting for her!

Blue Footed Booby Hat

The Blue Footed Booby Hat is now available! You can get a copy of the pattern on bear-ear.com or on ravelry. From July 1st to September 8th, all profits from the blue footed booby hat pattern will go towards Kenna's fundraising efforts for her walk in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day For The Cure.

If you are interested in supporting Kenna as she walks for her Mum, you can check out her Fundraising Page. She will be walking as a Blue Footed Booby (complete with blue shoes!)

The hat also comes in baby sizing.

For all those blue footed booby babies in your life.