Ask and you shall receive! Some of the latest custom orders

I've done a multitude of custom orders lately both from the online sites and from the shows I've attended. The moral of this post -I don't have everything in my online shops that I make. So if you think I can make something - ask! I probably can. Different colour combos, add a flower, whatever! There's just no way I can make all the hats and have pictures taken of them to post. Not enough hours in the day. And lets face it, on the rare occasion I do allow myself to slack off and take a hat free day:) Not often, but it happens on occasion.

This one is so cute I had to post 1 pictures of it so you could get the full view. One of the new colours I've been working with (sold out - waiting for a new shipment!) is Abbey Rose with the Burnt Orange - beautiful!

And as you can see it's an earflap hat with a flower :)






I also get a lot of requests for single coloured visors. Not a problem. I love the black here with the black flower. I've done this with the flapper style too - charcoal with a charcoal flower. Nice and subtle.



And 2 or 3 toned flowers! Not a great shot but you get the idea. The hats here are celery and the centre of the flower is celery for each of them. One row of petals one colour and the outside another colour. Very cute!

And I just really liked these hats - all in soft ecru with the rose pink and celery flower. Don't you love my new wicker heads too! So much nicer then that styrofoam ball!

I'm attending one more show this Sunday. Details are in the previous post. Well actually there's one last show after that but it's at an office building. I'm still maintaining my quick turn around and hats are still being shipped out within 3-5 days!

New Boy Visor Beanie

I was making some hats to drop off at the local store and made up this cute visor beanie in a misty grey and apple green. I love the colours together. This is one I'd like to make to get photos taking to add to my iCraft and Etsy shops. Maybe one day! lol

Here's the latest batch of hats I made to bring to the store. They sold out of the last batch I brought them within 3 weeks! It's been a busy summer.

Oh The Hats I've Made

Life has not slowed down. I've been busy busy busy doing landscaping projects and despite saying I was going to take this year off I have already signed up to do the 2010 60km Weekend To End Breast Cancer walk. Not only as a participant - but this time as a team captain! Our team the Groovy Boobie Girls is currently made up of 6 women. My goal was 7 but it looks like we may have 10! How great is that. 10 women means $20,000 towards ALL Women's cancers. Amazing!

And of course I've been making hats. I've been busy working on the order of 84 hats. 28 hats are done, working on the flowers for those hats then darn and sew them on. 1/3 of the order will be done. My goal is to have the first third done by the end of next weekend. And here are a bunch of other hats I've been making - custom orders.

I love how this wee hat turned out. All soft ecru with a pale sage green in the center. It's gorgeous and so classy.

These are a bunch of hats I made to take to one of the local stores. I've been trying to make more to bring her because they keep selling but I'm only a one woman show! lol

And these hats were also a custom order for the store too. A woman hat come in and wanted to get her grandbaby a hat and asked if she could get a matching one for Mom and one for Dad too!

This past week a had a couple emails asking me for some quick hats for baby pictures. This cute hat was for a wee one. I had made a 0-3mth size but then found out she was just a wee one so I quickly made a newborn hat. Good thing - the newborn hat fit her perfectly!

And I finished this cute baby boy hat yesterday for another local photographer. Love the white with the robins egg blue! Can't wait to see the pictures :)

Hmmm - What have I done lately

I just realized it's been awhile since my last post. I've been steadily working on hats and have completed some pretty cute ones. Right now besides working on a steady stream of orders I'm also working on some hats to send to photographers. Here are a few pictures of some of the hats I've completed recently.
These are really sweet. And I love the soft colors. I will eventually make these in larger sizes as well. These are just itty bitty, perfect for a shower gift! I've already listed these in my Etsy shop.

And something that I've been trying to figure out for awhile but finally put some time into it. Here's a typical visor beanie and the flower is detachable! So you can move it around, change it up and even where just the flower in your hair if that's what you'd like:)

Socks, Flapper, Brim Beanie

I didn't have time to take a picture of these until now. My girl has been bugging me for handmade socks. I started making socks this past summer. For me. Just for me. No one else. Every time she saw me knitting socks she'd ask when she was getting a pair. In August while on vacation she came with me to a gorgeous yarn store. And there I had her pick out some sock yarn that I would make her a pair of socks with. I'm also suppose to make myself a pair of socks with the same yarn.

Great. Not a problem...but it was 6ply yarn. And although the ladies at the store told me to just cast on xx (48 stitches maybe?) instead of the usual socks are way to new to me to be messing with a pattern like that. I finally found a pattern for kids socks using 6ply yarn at a local yarn store and made these socks in time for Christmas. They were a gift so I didn't check them before making the 2nd. Sure enough they were too small. So I had to cut the toe off, pick up the stitches and made them longer.

The good news is she loves them. I still need to find a pattern to make adult socks from the same yarn.

I have also just finished and shipped a custom order for the following flapper and brim beanie. I'm working on finishing up two more brim beanies that will be delivered tonight if all goes well.

Mmmm Sage

I had a special request to make a sage green visor beanie with a cream flower. I was torn as to what to make the center. At first I made a flower with navy, but wasn't too keen on it, so I opted for an antiqued pink. I think it complements it nicely.

Two More Hand Delivered

Lately I've been getting the hats finished without having time to take pictures.

Well Yay - I managed to get pictures of these two.

Just a quick one

I've completed a few projects. Here are the latest things to come off of my hook, that I managed to catch pictures of:

Brown Flapper Beanie with a Pale Pink Double Flower and a Celery Center

Brown Visor Beanie with Pale Pink Stripes

Brown Visor Beanie with Rose Pink Stripes

Brim beanies and Flappers Shipping out

I have 6 hats I'm taking to the Post Office today to ship. I am back to being fairly caught up and wait times have been reduced again:) Yay. Most items/orders will likely ship within 3 days now.

These hats are another "Mom & Me" set. Teehee - so cute!

Express to Vancouver

I have just completed (still need to tag) these 20 hats that will be making their way to a shop in Vancouver. Some great new colour combos here too!

20 Hats Ready to Roll

I just finished tagging (and making of course) the last of my first order I'm delivery to a cute local store! Here are the 20 hats I made for 3 Little Monkeys. And out of these I think I now of new favorites!


I just love this pastel pink with the white flower and celery center!







And for boys I love this brown with soft ecru stripes...a little Oreo cookie hat:) Yummy!

I thought my camera was ready to bite the dust. Instead what I realized is that little fingers have attacked it. Hopefully I have solved the problem and any other pictures I take will be with out the bit of smudging!

Flowered Brim Beanie and Flapper

I just finished and shipped two hats today that I was actually able to get photographed. I've just been shipping them out faster then I can click.

These two hats were custom orders. I hope they keep their new heads toasty:)

Sweetness

My friend recently had twin girls. I made these hats just for them and mailed them off. I was suppose to meet the girls this week but was sick so I had to postpone my visit. I can't wait to see the cuties!

Recently I was asked to make Mommy & Me hats, both in brown. This is the finished version. I think it would be great to see a picture of the pair:)






And I thought I'd include this picture too. These are hats I made for the Westboro store last month. I love some of the colour combinations in this one.

I have been busy preparing for shows. I have three in the coming weeks and I'm concerned about inventory levels. Once these shows are behind me I will start working on some new hats which will include earflaps (helmet heads) and aviator hats. Stay tuned.

Beanie Frenzy

Yesterday I completed these 13 hats for an order heading to Barrie, Ontario! They will soon be available online at a shop that promotes Canadian Talent!

Restocking

Here are the 22 hats I took to the store to restock their shelves. I was very pleased to see that there were few left. And happy to hear that people go into the store with no intentions of buying anything, but then they simply can't pass up a Loopy hat! Riding a bit of a high today:)

Hat Head

Hats it is. Here are the latest hats I've been working on. I'm in the process of finalizing 22 hats to bring to the store tomorrow. Then on to the next batch of 13 for an online shop that focuses on Canadian Made goods!

The green beanie with grey strips and the brown visors were custom orders.

This is a (bad) shot of my hats on display at the store. Not many left from what I brought in. This was taken about a week ago. My battery light just started flashing so I had to be quick!

Completed hats

Here's a surprise, I've been working on hats! The local store is keeping me busy which is perfect! And I'm just about to bump up production so I can start building inventory for 2 shows coming up in mid-October and early November.

I have sourced a new cotton supplier that has given me access to some great new colours. I'm thrilled with them. Here are four of the hats I've recently finished. The all ivory flapper and the white with the pink flower were custom orders.

The two visor beanies are ones that I made up with some of my new colours!

2nd Batch of Local Hats

On Friday I dropped off my 2nd batch of hats to the local store that is carrying them. It was great to go in and see my hats displayed. I wish I had my camera at the time so I could have taken a picture. Maybe next time. The good news is that they have been well received with customers and are already selling despite the warm weather!

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