At the end of July we traveled to Cape Town to celebrate Trudy’s 60th birthday with her. It was a wonderful weekend of family, friends, flowers, food and plenty of colour.
Trudy is a particularly colourful person, and loves to express herself in colour. Usually quite bright colour. It was only fitting that I made a hat for her that would match her character.
I was delighted to find the exact bright pink and orange crochet cottons that I was looking for. It took quite a bit of trial and error to get the tension right, but I ended up using a double thread and size 4mm crochet hook.
I used the same basic pattern as I did for my wooly hat, but because of the smaller hook and finer yarn the stitches were much smaller and so I added many more rows to each section of the hat. I simply kept crocheting until I reached the right size.
This is also the first hat that I’ve made in two colours. I simply changed yarns once I’d finished the bucket part and started the rim part.
I am delighted with how this hat turned out. It’s my best so far, and I think I’ll model all future hats on this design. It’s a lot more work, and takes longer to make, but the outcome is superior.
Judging by the top Trudy wore on the day of her birthday, I’d say I picked the perfect colours for her.
A very happy 60th birthday to Trudes.
Megs J Shep 