This is the gift I made for 7 year old Davy. He loves playing Angry Birds, so I thought a cozy Angry Birds hat would be nice for the winter. His warm jacket is red and black and the red angry bird seems to be the most popular, so I chose red yarn. I bought the pattern online, but in the spirit of "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" I'm not posting the link.
The pattern came with crocheted eyes, brows, and beak, but I decided to try making them on my embroidery machine instead. This idea was inspired by my friend Shane. She was inspired to make a sock monkey hat after I made mine, but she digitized the face herself and I really liked her idea. I guess we have inspired each other full circle! I found an outline of the angry bird face online and I made a redwork outline of it. I made each component in one hooping, directly hooping two layers of felt so that I wouldn't have any stabilizer inside. It stitched very quickly, then I trimmed it and stitched it to the hat by hand.
That's good enough for me.
3 comments:
That hat is just adorable! I'm sure he'll keep it long after he outgrows it.
Cynthia, Glad you like the hat! If Davy has my genes, he surely will keep the hat (I keep everything with sentimental attachments- ughh!) Thanks for leaving a comment!!
I love it! The features really pop the way you have done them, I'm sure my boyfriend would like one!
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