My newest addiction

I chose to start this blog by posting about my newest current obsession.
Those who know me, know that I LOVE hats.  I wear hats as often as I can, and my children, and my husband also rarely leave the house with out a hat.  My son even sleeps in his hat, but, let's face it, who can resist the power of Thomas the Tank Engine?

When it came to finding a summer hat for my daughter I ran into a bit of a problem this year - she thinks it's great fun to remove hats as soon as they land on her head.  Once I discovered that the search began to find a  cute, comfy, summer hat that I could tie to her head.  Do you know how impossible it is to find that?!?
We found one adorable one from Baby Gap, - of course, I can't find a photo of her in the hat to share right now -  but alas, one hat really is not enough.  I gave up on looking for hats and started looking for hat patterns.  I scoured Etsy.com and found Lea & Lars shop and knew this was it.  Simple, cute and totally customize-able.  What I didn't know is how easy it would be!  And I am not a professional sewer!  Two hours later, give or take, a super cute, super functional hat!

If it weren't past midnight, and my two little people weren't taking turns waking up at three for various, inexplicable reasons, I would whip out some more fabric and make another, and another, and another.

Here, finally, is the pretty little hat on our pretty little girl!