Two Swedish hats

As you may know I've made a number of crocheted hats based on the Swedish olympic hat, but none in Swedish colors. Blue and yellow is not my favorite color combination, but now I've made two:

With these two hats lying around it didn't take long before one of them was claimed by Iggy, Bollan's eldest son, who is part Swedish (read the whole story here).

The hats were made by request from my mother, so I'll be sending them up to her in the mail tomorrow. I will not reveal what they will be used for, but if you follow my blog you probably get to see it in June :)

Crocheted hat pattern!

After trying to make the Swedish Olympic hat a few times, I gave up and made up a pattern of my own instead, and HERE it is. I hope you like it :)

The hat is meant to be lady size, but it's both tight and very stretchable, so I'm pretty sure the hat will fit almost anyone :) I have also made the hat in two different styles, but it's the same basic pattern. Here is the bigger, beanie-type hat:

Weekend visit & shopping

This weekend we've had a visit by my boyfriend's parents. They brought LOTS of chicken/turkey hot dogs and chicken filets, our freezer is now completely full :) The mother's birthday was just a few days ago, so I made a cake, and I finally got to use my dinosaur sprinkles!

We went out shopping one of the days, the mother was looking for an 8mm crochet hook to make the Olympic hat, and we ended up getting new yarn for me to make more hats :) 

After I tried my first Olympic hat I fell in love with the yarn (DROPS Eskimo) and the spimplicity of the hat pattern, and I wanted to make lots of them to sell. I have now developed a pattern of my own that I'm happy with, and I'll add it to my pattern blog later :)

I also got the biggest Easter egg I've ever had, it has room for both Bollan and all my candy!

The Olympic hat...

It seems that everyone makes them these days, and everyone has their own version. There are several patterns out there, I'm not even sure which one I've used. I think I did my own version, too... I guess I shouldn't have, because I'm not too happy with the result. When the hat was big enough to try on I realized it was too small, so I did one more round of increase and just kept going. This resulted in a very long hat with a somewhat pointy top. If I push it forward it looks a bit like a Phrygian hat... *sigh*

I wanted it to be floppy, like the one I've been wearing lately (knitted by my mother from this pattern - sorry, only in Norwegian), but it looks a little flat and weird... I think the hat is just too small for me, so I guess I'll sell it on the market this summer. 

The problem might be that I crocheted the whole thing in single crochet, which makes it tight and not very stretchy... So that's why I decided to try again, this time doing the whole hat in half-double crochet. That saved me a lot of rounds :) It came out a little big, but I don't think it'll fall off my head, so I'm happy with it :)

Here is a picture of the two hats for comparison...