So my cousin, Kelly, contacted me asking if I would make a few Mickey Mouse hats for her boys. She's surprising them with Disney World later this December. I said, sure! So I bought this pattern and got to work. Both hats were done after two days.
I had all the yarn I needed, which was an awesome surprise. I didn't have to buy a thing! I made the size 6-12 years for Kelly's 6-year-old, Dylan, and the size 1-3 years for her 10-month-old, Tyson. Kelly requested the bigger size for Tyson because his head is almost as big as Dylan's!
I had a few problems with this hat. First of all, the 1-3 and the 6-12 year patterns ended up being almost exactly the same size. I was also confused sometimes because when the pattern said to skip certain rows for certain sizes, it was unclear whether I should end up with the same number of rows as the other sizes. For instance, it would say Row 14-15, but since I already skipped some rows earlier, I wouldn't be on Row 14 yet. I wasn't sure how many rows I needed to have. I'm probably just stupid and no one else had this problem.
These size problems made me paranoid throughout the process, especially since I didn't have the kids here to see if they'd fit. I kept expressing to my cousin how big the baby's hat was, and she kept insisting Tyson's head was huge. I kind of figured, screw it, it'll be cute if it's floppy. Better too big than too small, right? I still don't know if the hats fit because the boys still don't know about the trip.
The other problem I had with the hats was assembling them. This problem was just due to my perfectionism. I attached and detached and reattached each piece at least three times. It was ridiculous. I also experimented with bigger ears, but they wouldn't stay up. I don't know how the adult hat would look with those tiny ears. But on kids, I think they'd look okay.
The hats look super cute, though. Kelly was so excited to receive them! I can't wait to get pics of the boys in them.
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