Halloween night was cold! Too cold for a hula girl without outerwear. So our little hula girl grabbed her mother's just finished hat and wore it for trick or treating!

I've been teaching a lot of hat classes recently and it always helps if I make a hat along with my students. I can model techniques on my hat and they can all take a turn using dpn's even if they haven't gotten that far on their own hats. In my hat class before Halloween, I pulled out some left over Spud & Chloe Sweater yarn from wee's crazy pompom hat (which has pompoms now, but is still awaiting its tassels!). There was plenty of pink and green left, so I thought I'd make a little striped hat for wee. About halfway in and I realized the hat was more my size than hers. No worries. I can always use a new hat. I finished it up and set it in the hat box by the door.

The next day was Halloween and hula girl needed something to keep her head warm. Something in a "watermelon" pink and a "grass" (skirt) green maybe... My hat! We stretched her flower headband around the brim and she was all set. Serendipity!

A few weeks later and I had another hat class and still more pink and green Spud & Chloe Sweater left over. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to make a hat just for wee one! This time I thought I'd make the reverse of my own green and pink hat: pink with green stripes. It looked awesome...

Until I ran out of the watermelon pink yarn right there, a mere inch from the top. So much for using up leftovers.