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WANT.

I want that in my size. In red.

I need one of those for my kid! He will NOT wear a hat but that one, when tied, might stay on him. When do you start production? Sign us up.

*puts name down on list*

Get Green Pepper Pattern #549. This is apparently a newish pattern. It's on page 16 of this PDF - but you might want to see if you can find it in a store like Jo-Ann Fabrics, as the listed price in the catalog of $7.00 is way too much for such a simple pattern.

I bought extra heavy fleece for the outside and 1 yard, as indicated by the pattern, was enough to make two. The lining was a micro fleece. It called for 1/2 a yard which was still too much. Ignore the contrast fleece. A lot of the extra fabric is for braided tassels, I think.

I laid out the hat on the thick stuff and eyeballed what I thought the tentacles should be with a 3/8 seam allowance. After cutting out the main hat, I cut two more tentacles. For the lining, I traced the main hat but not full tentacles - just 3/8" longer than about where the seam should be.

For the flukes, I measured the seam that gives the hat its shape and cut 4 triangles with one side that length. Placed right sides together and sewed the two outside seams and turned it right side out. Pinned them to be part of the seam of the main hat.

For the tentacles, I overlapped the lining and the extra pieces and sewed them together so that they match the main hat, then trimmed the excess allowance.

From there I just followed the main pattern, ignoring the tassels. The pattern also wanted you to sew every seam twice - once with a straight stitvh and again with a zigzag, which I guess is to be a poor person's serger, but I saw no need to the zig zag and ignored it. When turning right side out, I used a long handled paint brush (a pencil, eraser side would do), to push the tentacles up far enough to grab. I have a camphone picture of the pieces that I'll upload.

Sewed on the biggest buttons I could find that looked like eyes. I was going to do jiggly eyes, but the large ones weren't buttons and I didn't like the idea of gluing them on.

The pattern is adult and kid sized. jamaro.

It took me about two hours. I did half while Stuart was napping and half while he was eating his nap recovery snack.

omg, that's the best hat ever! Plinth, you might need to start a shop.

I was afraid to click. I AM SO GLAD I DID. That's awesome, plinth!

Nice one. You should start a shop, where's the website where you can shill handmade stuff again? A few of those might bring in some smiles for other moms&dads and money to you. :)

ETSY!

You're kids are so cute, plinth. And that hat, omg - awesome!

Here is a photo of the pieces.