What's New?

The 'Psychedelic Mennonite' and other caps, that's what's new.

There are large Mennonite, Amish and other Anabaptist communities in south central Wisconsin. The farm land is rich and so makes the minimally mechanized life-style possible. While I don't envy them their hard work or "simple" attire or strict religious practices I do find the small mesh/net hats the women wear on the back of their heads to keep their hair buns from flying away intriguing.

This 'Psychedelic Mennonite' is mosaic crochet and I'll be making more and offering them on Etsy. Since I'm using different grist handspun to make these, there are 'air-holes' to make it wearable in the fall or spring. It also makes securing the hat with bobby pins possible. Other pill-box type caps will be more along the lines of a "Big Pill to Swallow" and I'm working on getting some important dimensions to investigate a man's cap.

All in all quite a bit of experimentation is going on in my workspace but I will be blogging more regularly with smaller blog posts. If you want detail on anything I'm doing, let me know.