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Baby Yoda needed a hat

I haven't the heart to dress myself up this horrible year, but I did consider dressing up Baby Yoda. Not the usual ones I crochet--I did buy one of those bigger ones from Target. They have a soft beanbag body and very hard well-sculpted plastic hands and head, which makes him a bit hard-headed, snuggle-wise. I felt like he needed a hat or at least some cushioning. 

Yes, I'm the age I am and dressing up the Baby Yoda and you know what, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. What else do I have when I will forever be in quarantine? 

The coat is permanently on, so that's not removeable, but I looked over at a stuffed Stitch I have and thought, "Well, that would work with the ears...."

However, this was a bit tricky because of the stiffness of his head and ears. I couldn't figure out a way to make a one piece hat because if I wanted to cover the ears, they really had to be put on separately. Finally I ended up making two ear....condoms, I guess....and then a wraparound hat to put on top of the ears. 

Baby Yoda Stitch Hat:

I used an F hook and blue and pale pink DK yarn.

Ears (make 2):
1. Magic loop, do 6 sts in loop.
2. Do 2 sts per each stitch--12 sts total.
3. Sc2together 4x, then do 4 st--8 sts total.
4. Do 2 sts in first stitch, sc in each stitch to the last stitch, do 2 sts in last stitch (10 sts) Probably want to place a marker on first stitch every time to keep track.
5. Repeat row 4 again six more times (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22), finish with 22 sts.
6. Sc all the way around for 11 rows.
7. Do 2sts in each stitch all the way around--44 sts, finish off.

Hat:
1. Make 28 chains.
2. Double crochet into the 3rd stitch from hook, dc in each chain until you have 26 sts.
3. Dc on each row for 12 rows.
4. After the 12th row, chain 14 st.
5. Dc into the third stitch from hook and in each chain, then all the way back across the next hat row.
6. When you reach the end, do a slip stitch into the bottom of the last stitch and chain another 14 stitches.
7. Dc into the third stitch from the hook and in each chain until you've filled in the entire row and are back at the original row. Slip stitch across the entire top row to get back to the original start of the flap section.
8. Make 4 more rows of double crochet, finish off on the last row, weave in ends.

Sew 2 buttons to each side where you started the hat, so that the flaps can fold over. Just slip the stitches over the buttons to hold it on, double crochet has plenty of room to not need to bother with making buttonholes. The front flaps fold over around his ears to the back of his head. 

Ear lining (pink DK, make two)
1. Chain 2, sc in 2nd chain.
2. Do 2sc in the chain.
3. Do 2sc in both stitches, for total of 4 sts.
4. Sc across (4 sts).
5. Sc in first 3 sts, do 2 sc in last sc.
6. Sc across.
7. Repeat rows 5 and 6 until you have a total of 9 sts.
8. Sc in each stitch across for 14 rows, Finish off, leave a long tail to sew lining on to front of ears. 

When putting on the hat: put the ears on first and then button the hat on around the ears to hold them in. 

Happy Halloween, I guess.

This is as Halloween as it's getting around here this year

I don't have the heart to spend months on a costume when I can't leave my house to show it off. I can't be arsed to so much as make a mask for Zoom. Sigh. How are the mighty fallen.

So here are the Halloween cats in costumes (of sorts) from Mochimochiland instead. 

Guitar case zombie cat.

Ghost cat.

Jack o'cat.

Witch hat cat.

Axel wattle

Today a coworker asked if I could make an "axel wattle." What's that? Oh, an axolotl?

 

The Dissent collar

Followup from here.

I had to design my own since I didn't really like any of the patterns I saw. It got a little weird, I guess. I was working from this photo.

1. Chain 40 sts for ties, place marker, chain 70 for middle, place marker, then chain 40 again. 
2. Ch 1, sc for 40 sts, then dc for 70 sts, then sc for 40 sts, cut yarn.
3. Reattach yarn approximately 12 dc  sts into the chain, then make dc's for 46 sts, turn. 
4. Chain 13. Do 3 sc in the next chain from the hook, then 1 sc in each chain down to the bottom of the chain, do one more sc into the neckline. Turn, sc in each st back in the other direction until the last st, then do 3 sc into the last stitch and then slip stitch into the other stitch next to it at the top. Then slip stitch back along the line you just crocheted to get back to the neckline again. 
5. Chain 15, otherwise do the same as the last row. 
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for 22 more times, for a total of 24 dangling bits. 
7. Sew each dangling chain to the next chain. Press the edges up against each other and sew back and forth under them, pushing the edges up so that the edges are raised up to make a ribbed sort of look. 

Comes out looking about like this. Forgive the lighting issues of ah, photographing black on black.

As for the beads: I didn't have anything that really looked like rhinestones around the house (or at least, not that many of them), so I ended up doing my own thing and raiding a large bin of glittery pastel-ish beads I had around the house. I sewed on 5-7 beads or so per each section and then sewed beads around the collar.

Here's a photo of it on. I'm so sick of looking at my sad pandemic hair, so here is an awesome purple wig instead:

And thus endeth the RBG Collar Series, I suspect. I've got all her signature ones now.

If I bother to dress up for Halloween (I did not make a costume this year, for obvious reasons) I will probably be either RBG or Gert from Runaways with this wig. 

Hamiltie 2

So this ended up burning up in a fire. It's a good thing I still had the yarn/supplies around to make another. Not to mention that I still had all my notes and whatnot around the house. Moral of the story: keep that stuff for future reference. And at least that time I knew what I was doing :P