Fun Hats

Carole Ventura's precise tapestry crochet hats,
beautifully designed and executed,
her work shows us the meaning of excellence.

Tapestry crochet lends itself well to making hats. We are having an exceptionally cold winter this year so hats have come out of storage and the hook is busy after so much inspiration from the postings of hats in the Flickr Tapestry Crochet group. Go check them out.

The quickest way to find them all is to go to the Flickr group and bring up the Tags, click on the "hat" tag and up will come all the hats tagged with it.

That's the importance of tags, so don't forget to tag your postings, they'll even turn up in Google Image Searches that way too.

I've posted a few really fun examples of creative tapestry crochet inventive hat genius here.
But do go see all of them.

Nordic design stars in Torirot's baby hat

One of Wanda's Wonders

Megan's makes extraordinary inventions

CrochetDad shows his inventive flair in this topee

My old hat

Vaisto in one of her fun hats

Thanks to all the tapestry crochet artists.
They all have so much more on the Flickr Tapestry Crochet group pages.

WANDA'S DREAMS

DREAMS MADE REAL

Wanda in one of her Wonderful Dreams

Wanda Blount is extraordinary talent who specializes in creating tapestry crochet high fashion hats. She says she dreams of her creations before she take hook to wool.

Carole Ventura has written up Wanda's inspirational story very comprehensively on her Tapestry Crochet Blog, so I won't steal her thunder, you can read all about Wanda's crochet there - see also Carole's sidebar links.

Wanda herself has posted a lot of her pix on Flickr.

These wonderful hats are worthy of Paris catwalk fashions in my dreams...
....yes I dreamed I saw Naomi Campbell sashaying down the catwalk in Wanda's creations!
Maybe this dream will come true for Wanda too!

Whet your appetite here with a few of her astonishing beauties:






Thank you Wanda for letting me bring your art here.

Now I go to dream.....perchance to crochet.....

Anu

Come share the bubbly.

Nice venue, but where are the guests?

Have you ever had a party, but nobody turned up? Happened to a friend of mine once. He made the house look wonderful, put out great refreshments, brought in a band, lighting and even set up a fountain, bubbling & spotlit with pretty colors, in the entrance.
But everybody had gone to a festival over by the beach. So he opened the French champers & sat watching the fountain...but hey...they all rolled in around 1 am by which time he was a very merry host indeed and it became an all night rave.

This is feeling a bit like that. I hope the other tapestry crochet aficionados get here soon.

Vibrant talent from Finland.

Meanwhile I'll share this bit from the Carol Ventura archives, sent to me by Google FeedBlitz, about the beautiful precise work of Maarit Aalto from Finland. If you read it and follow the links you'll find your work can become as precise as hers. My own work is a case in point. From now on I'll be working her way and creating clear and precise images.

Also today a new Flickr Tapestry Crochet Group member me si, also from Finland, arrived with her vibrant hats. Must be something to do with the northern lights!

Hope you'll join me here soon, a party of one is very limited fun.

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