I keep forgetting to write: the flower in this pattern has a knitted lace web between the petals which keeps the petals in place. No more flopping knitted flowers on your hats or where ever else you may choose to place a knitted flower. This pattern can be found on Ravelry.
I have put another pattern onto Ravelry. This hat design has waited several years to be knitted. I designed this skull and a robot beanie several years ago, but I wasn't sure who would wear them. I collected images of sugar skulls and monsters on my Pinterest board and pondered. Plush monster hats were sold in our local market and children were wearing them to school, but not many adults were wearing them. I designed animal hats for the book Animal hats to knit and I found that if the hats had too much personality, they were more difficult to wear. An angry face or sad eyes on a hat somehow made you feel differently about the wearer. Even a friend of mine who collects skull images thought a