{"id":24,"date":"2006-09-16T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T03:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-10-14T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:22:21","slug":"crocheted-cat-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/crocheted-cat-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"crocheted cat hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my entry to the September Whiplash contest. The challenge was to make any kind of hat. I got the inspiration for my hat from my cat, Maui:<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"\/blog\/images\/hat1big.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"crocheted cat hat\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hat1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I crocheted\u00a0the cat\u00a0hat in single crochet from black chenille with cream chenille accents. After reading the tapestry crochet post on whipup a few weeks ago, I&#8217;ve been wanting to try it, so I added a zig-zag border around the bottom, to match the &#8216;M&#8217; markings on Maui&#8217;s forehead. I finished the bottom with reverse\u00a0single crochet.:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hat2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I single crocheted cream fronts and black backs for the ears, then\u00a0joined the fronts\u00a0to the\u00a0backs\u00a0with\u00a0a reverse single crochet border:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hat4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hat\u00a0still looked a bit plain, so I added three flowers embroidered with lazy daisy stitch, with bead centres:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hat3.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maui seems to approve of the finished hat:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/hat5.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m entering the cat hat into the <strong>design<\/strong> category of Whiplash this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my entry to the September Whiplash contest. The challenge was to make any kind of hat. I got the inspiration for my hat from my cat, Maui: I crocheted\u00a0the cat\u00a0hat in single crochet from black chenille with cream chenille accents. After reading the tapestry crochet post on whipup a few weeks ago, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}