Minion Madness

Have you seen the film Despicable Me yet? We absolutely love it in our family, it is so unusual. I have never seen anything like it before, we all thoroughly enjoyed it (and the second one which is even better!). We especially like the Minions who are really the stars of the film. I wont go into detail because I don’t want to ruin it for you, but you should definitely give it a go!

Anyways, as it’s autumn it means it’s time to prepare for hat-wearing, and when I saw this pattern I HAD to have one! Now, I’m bold, but not so bold as to go round sporting minion hats (sorry), but I happen to have two little boys who I can dress however I please …hmmm. And quite obviously it would please me very much, and Little H, if they were to be wearing minion hats!

I made a yellow minion hat for Little H first as he is really the one who is into it, Little A doesn’t have a clue yet. I adapted the hat a little because my kids have really big heads (hopefully its all brains). For the yellow one I used two strands of Stylecraft Special DK together and a 5.5mm hook.

I was pretty pleased with how it came out, but after finishing, I realised I had made the ear flaps FAR too short! Luckily, Little H has little ears :)

I then made this purple one for Little A. I used the smaller pattern (Toddler) but used Stylecraft Special Chunky and a 6mm hook. This was far easier to work up, the yarn was so much easier to handle than two strands of DK and as a result the hat is thick but not stiff (as the yellow one is a little). I also chose to add the black band afterwards as I had only DK in black, but it was pretty easy and, I think, looks better.

So there you are, I can’t wait for the cold weather now! The only problem is that Little H doesn’t want to actually wear his hat, he wants to look at it, and he can’t do that whilst it’s on his head! Not sure what the solution is for this…

Thanks for stopping by, have you been excitedly making any preparations for the winter?

Hayley

xx

P.S. Sorry for the poor quality of these photos (and probably some to follow), our camera has broken and as such it refuses to focus at certain distances, I have to try all sorts of things to get a reasonable picture...strange I know! As soon as we can afford a new one we will!! Thanks! xx