Green Hatscarf

[firstfrost]

This is another Christmas present request, an extra-bonus-warm alpaca hatscarf, to allow Jess to brave the terrible and icy winters of Sebastopol. And a matching octopus.

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[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I made the hat after you asked, but the octopus is the same one as matches the hatscarf at the beginning. :)

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Hee! Ok, that's a lot faster. :-)

I guess I expect a chef's hat to be poofier on top, but too much poof might make it look like a mushroom. The other thing that makes it somewhat screw-like is it's diameter. Given the resolution you get with yarn and knitting (ie, that you couldn't see the individual poofs in the top puffy part), it might be easier to convey the chef hat concept with a bigger overall diameter.

But really, as-is is plenty cute and there's no need to go overboard unless you want to.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I think the trouble is that my image of a chef's hat is based on the Swedish Chef, who has a particularly pancakey hat top. :)