Ready for Sun

While at Quilt Market, we completed a fun booth hop put on by some of the vendors from Utah. Bailey actually did most of the leg work on it for me, and was great at collecting stamps from each participating booth we passed. As a reward for all that hard work, we won one of the prizes!
A few weeks ago in the mail, I received a package containing my very own Abbey Bag, which I didn't even have to make! Plus, a copy of Abbey Lane's newest books. Just in time, too, because I was under the gun to make Will a sun hat before a camping trip, and I hadn't figured out how to adjust the Amy Butler pattern I made for Kylee into a less girly version of sun protection. I was excited to find a great unisex hat pattern in one of the books, and in a couple hours I whipped up a great hat for Will.
The books are full of other great patterns too, so watch for them in store soon!

More Hats!

I LOVE this Hat!

Yesterday, sort of on a whim, I decided I would whip up a hat for Bailey for her birthday. (which was yesterday) This hat is from Whimsical's new book, "Tangled Up in Thread. I knew the hat was cute, I'd seen them at Quilt Market. What I didn't know was how easy, and how addictive, they were going to be! Here's the run down on the hat:

2 hours = 1 hat
<$10 of materials = 1 hat
2 fat quarters, 1/8yd. trim and 1/4yd. interfacing = 1 hat
1 hat made = orders for at least 3 more!

Even if you made nothing else from the book, the hat is more than worth purchasing the book for! I am making 2 more today for my other two girls, and maybe tomorrow I'll finally get one for myself. It is great fun to embellish them with different flowers and buttons, and this Fall I'll probably make us all a winter hat from the Woolie Flannels!