New Hat

So there’s been a whole lotta sickness going on in my family this last week. Who am I kidding, these last two months–but especially this last week. This has meant that I haven’t been getting much made. This is incredibly frustrating since I have all of these marvelous ideas and no time or opportunity to make them. I dutifully write/draw them down and hope like heck I can remember the details. Like a lot of people, I am visited by my most interesting visions early in the morning, in those moments between sleep and wake. These are NOT visions like people have when they’re high and THINK they’re having brilliant ideas, but later realize that those ideas are ONLY brilliant when they get high again. At least I hope not. You tell me.

When I have had a moment to work in these last two months, I’ve been really into the red/turquoise/aqua thing. I made this fantastic cashmere skirt, which I’m calling my “Dragon Scales” skirt because… well, it reminded me of stories about dragons.

 

To go with this I created this fantastic (if I may say so myself) neck wrap in the same cashmere.

 
I love this thing, not just because I think the colors are fantastic, but because it’s so soft that once you put it on, you never want to take it off. I cut little teardrop shaped holes in this, then surrounded them with red thread.

I call this my “Dragon Tears” neck wrap. I really wanted to keep this for myself. Alas, I put it on a mannequin at the Torpedo Factory and it sold almost instantly.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the whole outfit:

I made one other, in two shades of Turquoise (also with “Tears”), and it sold immediately as well.

Making things I love and sending them out into the world (no matter how badly I want to hold onto them) is part of what I do, and why I love to do it.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
But before you think that sounds impressive, I’ll come clean and tell you that I also made a couple of hats. I made this one:

 

And loved it so much I REALLY wanted to keep it. It was really my favorite hat that I’d ever made. Of course it sold immediately, so I set about making a sister hat.

 

 

 

That’s when I made this one:

 Now I’ll admit to you that I am keeping this one. In fact, I’ve been wearing it around for a couple of weeks now. My feeling was that it was far too weird for anyone to like it (much less want to buy it). But to my surprise, I have people complimenting it and asking about it all the time. The really fab thing is, it’s light cashmere, so I can keep on wearing it for a least another month, maybe two.

I guess that’s all a long way to tell you that I have a new hat.