After making all the fruit and vegetable hats, I went on to make quite a few more hats. I tried out a new mosaic pattern (plus variation) that I developed during a meeting-good thing they couldn’t see my doodling! I’m calling these two variations ‘the lollipop guild’ (the one with periscopes/lollipops between the figures) and ‘heigh ho’ (the original). The yarn is knitpicks chroma worsted, and I was really pleased with how the colors worked for mosaic knitting.
The other batch of hats is based on a sock design I’d seen in a picture, which I turned into a hat pattern, and then did quite a few variations. The original pattern has all the cables going diagonally, so I decided to see how zig-zags would look, and how it would look if I did two diagonals right after each other. I’m not sure which is my favorite variation-I think it’s easier to pick a favorite hat color! I really like how some of them look in the decreases at the top though, almost like a flower.
My mum visited us in the fall, and we ended up doing a bit of a photoshoot on the front porch. It was cold and wet that day, but the lighting was good, and she got to play with the feature on my phone that makes the background all fuzzy. We had a pile of around 10 hats to photograph, and we ended up getting what shots to take down to a science.