My luck is changing!

I've never considered myself a lucky winner.  Door prizes, raffles, you name it - I seldom win...  (except for the time I won a 2-ton hydraulic car jack - twice! - but that's another story...)

Anyway, I finally won something!  Remember this hat I showed you a few days ago?

It was made entirely with Jo Morton fabrics from Andover, and Andover gives a weekly prize for projects made with their fabrics.  I thought - what the heck - I'll never win if I don't submit it, so I did - and I won this week!  Here's a link...
My Andover


Now maybe I should buy a lottery ticket...

Tasting Table Tuesday - Selvages

I finally made a selvage project!  I've seen so many of them floating around the internet, and started saving them long ago, but have never made anything with them, until now.  (This is actually my second attempt to make a selvage hat - you don't want to see the first one - trust me!)

I have a friend who will be starting chemo soon, so I wanted to make her a special hat to wear as she looses her hair.  She is a huge fan of Jo Morton fabrics, and also loves paisley.  So I used a Jo Morton paisley for five of the six hat panels, and pieced some Jo Morton selvages for the front panel and the brim.

To be honest, I started out making a beret-style hat that was made totally from pieced together selvages.  It turned out so small that it just perched on the top of my head, and the selvages didn't allow the fabric to drape properly, so it just sat there like a pancake on the top of my head - it looked so ridiculous that I burst out laughing before I took my seam ripper to it, and salvaged what I could of the selvages (try saying that six times fast!).  I think this newsboy cap is a much better pattern for this project, so that's what she's getting...  It would have looked good with selvages all around, but by the time I cut apart the first hat, I was all out of Jo Morton ones.  So the paisley worked, and I hope she likes it...

(I realize this picture's not the best, but I was in a hurry so just dropped the hat on top of a candle hurricane centerpiece on my table - not the best background, but works in a pinch.)

Cheers!