Fleece Lining for Crocheted Hat

Thanks to Christina Ramirez of Love Stitch Love for her tutorial on how to add a fleece lining to a crocheted hat. I am blogging some photos I made to remember this process.

As Christina suggested, I made a pattern from the crocheted hat, which was folded into quarters first.

Using a 1/2 inch seam allowance, sew 2 of the pieces together twice.

This gives you 2 halves. 

Then sew those 2 halves together creating the hat lining.

I marked the half way points on both the fleece and the crocheted hat. 

Then it was easy to line them up and pin together.

Put the fleece hat inside the crocheted hat, matching the sides.

Place the fleece earflap pieces so they match the crocheted earflaps.

Leave about 1/2 inch unsewn on either side of the earflaps when sewing them to hat.

Then you can fold that part underneath for a finished edge.

Pin the hem under on fleece earflap and all along fleece lining.

I machine topstitched that part of the earflap to make it stay in place.

Hand sew the fleece lining to crocheted hat using small stitches.

Stretch out the hat now and then so thread will not break with the normal use.

On an earlier attempt, I machine stitched the fleece lining to the crocheted hat, 

but I found it much easier to sew it by hand.

Thanks Christina for your great tutorial! 

Crochet for Baby Girl

My friend's daughter is having her first baby in May.

Here are some gifts I crocheted for the baby girl.

Baby blanket (and all the items shown here) are made from Caron Simply Soft yarn.

 Close up of the baby blanket

Sweater made with Aunt Jen Sweater pattern from Sandi Angels.
Apparently the Sandi Angels site is no longer available
but Ravelry had the link from web archive.

I started with  Alli's Crochet Hats patterns and then made some adaptations.
For this hat, added the open work and the scalloped edge.

Since baby is due in May, I wanted the booties to be more open.
Began with Earth Baby's Bootie
adapting it by adding a back and tie to help booties stay on.

Flower pattern is from Nichole Heady.
Used Internet Archive to search for Nichole's old blog post and found it here:
Nichole's Crochet Flower

Added a cuff to this hat.

Used Little Birdie Secrets Heart pattern.

Thank you for visiting!

Ninja Turtle Hats

I am "into" Ninja Turtles...well, actually Ninja Turtle Hats! My younger daughter used to love the Ninja turtles. Making these hats has brought back sweet memories!

Used Alli's Toddler earflap hat, without making the earflaps, for this green and blue Leonardo hat. It's for our neighbor, Brandon. I used post stitches in the last 2 rows.

The pattern for these eyes are from Jennifer Reaves Knottz of Yarn blog. 

My neighbor shared this link with me. Jennifer also has a hat/beanie pattern. I used Alli's hat patterns because I was more familiar with them and she had more size variations. 

The pattern for the eyes in the orange section above are from Monica's Chucks For Chancho blog.

Monica has a great method for changing colors, with a great photo tutorial. 

Used Alli's 6 month baby earflap hat for this green and orange hat, except without the earflaps.

Here is our little grandson, Gavin, wearing his Leonardo hat. 

I tend to make things too large, as you can see. 

Maybe I should rip out a row?

Thanks so much for visiting!

Peace and all good!