Fun Hats

Carole Ventura's precise tapestry crochet hats,
beautifully designed and executed,
her work shows us the meaning of excellence.

Tapestry crochet lends itself well to making hats. We are having an exceptionally cold winter this year so hats have come out of storage and the hook is busy after so much inspiration from the postings of hats in the Flickr Tapestry Crochet group. Go check them out.

The quickest way to find them all is to go to the Flickr group and bring up the Tags, click on the "hat" tag and up will come all the hats tagged with it.

That's the importance of tags, so don't forget to tag your postings, they'll even turn up in Google Image Searches that way too.

I've posted a few really fun examples of creative tapestry crochet inventive hat genius here.
But do go see all of them.

Nordic design stars in Torirot's baby hat

One of Wanda's Wonders

Megan's makes extraordinary inventions

CrochetDad shows his inventive flair in this topee

My old hat

Vaisto in one of her fun hats

Thanks to all the tapestry crochet artists.
They all have so much more on the Flickr Tapestry Crochet group pages.

TUTORIAL VIDEO

Carole Ventura has a Flat Tapestry Crochet Tutorial video on her blog that will help everyone overcome those problems of blurry edges on images.

Image courtesy Carole Ventura

Most back & forth flat tapestry crochet looks like the example on the left.

How much better the one on the right looks, so neat and precise.

Check out this excellent video and practice this technique and you too will never have those wobbly bits to offend the eye in your creations.

Here's an idea! Say you wanted your animal (in the above example) to have a furry coat, but a sharp head & legs, you could combine the two techniques. This would give an extra dimension to the work.

Thanks again Carole, you are the wind under our wings.

More of Carole's video tutorials on uTube here

Anu