Crochet Me Crazy

Well, I'm sure you've seen those adorable Panama hats on the internet. I have had so many people send me that picture it's not even funny...even people that don't crochet have seen those hats!
That is what has inspired me to make this hat. This is a picture of what I had laid out on Friday night...



I've made some changes to it since then...it's been a process. I had three long, straight 15 hour days at my caretaking job and I spent a lot of time working on this. Finding the flower patterns and trying different ones was time consuming.

Anyway, I'm still working on it but this is what it looks like now.



I plan to make the spiral one next after this one. After that I think I will have had enough of these hats for awhile.

We've been iced in since Friday night until today. I don't know what it is but the weather is always ALOT more severe out here where we are. We are 15 miles out of town and it thaws in town before it thaws out here.