Here’s another hat for the Chickpea. It may be over the top but I was determined to learn how to make that damn flower. If my niece hadn’t showed me a way of cheating I never would have figured out the pattern. Why are they so cryptic? If anyone knows a good place for modern crochet patterns (particularly kids) online, please let me know. It has to be out there somewhere but all I’m finding are things I cringe at. I don’t want my baby looking like a tea-cozy, a fringy, frilly one at that.

