{"id":1418,"date":"2021-10-11T19:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T00:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2021-10-11T18:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:29:16","slug":"developing-hatvision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/developing-hatvision\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Hatvision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1421 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211010_163322884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"209\" \/>Though I&#8217;ve made dozens of hats, I want to get better at making them. To improve my technique, I look at patterns and stitches to see what I can incorporate into future hats. Particularly I&#8217;m looking to see what works, what doesn&#8217;t and to develop a better eye for hat making.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is not just making hats that will fit a human. I&#8217;m beyond the fear that a hat won&#8217;t fit a person. What I want is to be able to do is look at a hat and see if I can envision it in other yarn weights or look at yarn and see if I have enough for a hat or if I can envision a hat made from oddballs. When I say made from oddballs, not a random amount of stripes but effectively using the odd bits yarn I have in creative ways. I am confident in where the stripes will lie when I use certain self striping yarns for particular patterns in a scarf or afghan. How they work up in different hat patterns is a different story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1420 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Greyfreeformhat-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>My eye for hats hasn&#8217;t developed yet. I make plans for afghans and can see the best use of oddballs and color combinations. While hats are smaller, it&#8217;s the varied sections: height, crown, brim, circumference means there&#8217;s more variables to take into consideration, not to mention style. Is this a close fitting beanie or a slouchy hat? So many options.<\/p>\n<p>My hat making skills have improved and they look good and fit. It&#8217;s the learning curve I&#8217;ve imposed on myself. It&#8217;s not that the skills I have aren&#8217;t transferrable to hats, it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve made more afghans and scarves than I have hats. Also, I look for improvements I can make after each project and try to make changes. I&#8217;m still learning and willing to try different things. (And I&#8217;m still developing an eye for hats.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Happy crocheting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#8217;ve made dozens of hats, I want to get better at making them. To improve my technique, I look at patterns and stitches to see what I can incorporate into future hats. Particularly I&#8217;m looking to see what works, what doesn&#8217;t and to develop a better eye for hat making. What I mean is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}