Crochet Me Crazy

More hats....the first one took a little bit of arm twisting to get my husband to model it.





Now, I hate to have my beautiful daughter modeling a Budweiser hat but she was my only available model.

Okay, it took me about 15 minutes to weave in my ends and crochet the brim. So, the total time it took me to make the hat was an hour and a half.



I did all of this not only to answer some questions I have received about the hats but also to figure out how long it is taking me to make one. I rarely sit down and crochet something start to finish so its sometimes hard for me to guess how long it actually takes me.

Now, I wonder why are most of the beer cans blue? I'm going to get very tired of blue.

I joined the panels together. This took me about 5 minutes. Next, I crocheted the crown of the hat. It took about 10 minutes.



Then, it took another 10 minutes to join it to the hat...



Now, I've spent an hour and 15 minutes on the hat so far....

Now, all I have to do is weave in my ends and add my brim. I'm definately on target to finish this hat tonight, right after I finish cleaning up the dinner dishes.

Okay, so our hot water heater quit working last night. Alison and I had to go over to the public bath house to take our showers last night. I get in the car to drive over and the car won't start. Thankfully, it was just one of the battery connectors was loose. Jeff is looking at the water heater today and it looks like its just the switch that is bad. He and Alison just went into town to buy a new switch. Good news is that he came back and said he got a call from one of the flyers he put out in town. Someone wants a quote.

Now onto the hat.... I'm ready to punch the holes using my pre-made stencil.



It took me about 5 minutes to punch the holes into all 6 panels. So now I've got about 20 minutes put into this hat so far.



After I punch the holes, I round off the corners with a pair of scissors. Panels are finished and I'm ready to start the easy part...crocheting!
First stage of crocheting around each panel takes me 5 minutes per panel.



So,now after crocheting around each panel I'm spent 50 minutes on this hat so far today.

I'm going to get a Bud Light hat made today. I went outside with my cup of coffee this morning and spent 15 minutes cutting my washed cans.



Cut off top and bottom of can with a razor knife and scissors



Now, I'm going to lay my stencils on my can and cut my panels out. Some cans you can only get one panel our of because of where they are on the can.




Here are my 6 panels that I need to make my hat with. This took me 16 minutes to do.



Now, I am going back inside to post these pictures, wash some dishes, cook something for us to eat. The rest of the steps to make the hat I will do inside throughout the day today.