Gir (pronounced GRRRRRRR)

 

Our Hat craze started here. Well not at this 4th of July Festival, but with the hat Bree Rex is wearing. Her Panda hat. This is actually where my crocheting WITH a pattern begins too. You see I have been crocheting since I was a little girl, but i didn't understand how to read a pattern. I just knew how to do what i knew how to do. Then about 7 years ago my mom taught me how to knit without a pattern too. One day I saw a friend knitting socks at a soccer practice for our girls. I told her what I hear people say all the time... "I can knit scarves but that is about all. I cannot read a pattern." And she graciously set me up to read patterns and MAKE MY FIRST socks!!!! What an autumn that was. But I digress. Bree Rex found Etsy one day. And she was captivated by this website. All the cool things people were making!! Then she came to me, "Mom I found the hat I want and it is only $7.00 on etsy. It is a panda hat and I HAVE $7.00. So being the busy mom I am, I told her ok, showed her how to make a transaction, collected her money and was on my way. Well a couple weeks later, and still no hat, I looked up to see what was going on... she had not purchased a hat, but rather a pattern to crochet a hat. Sigh. The tears that flowed!!! SO I know crocheting, how hard can a pattern be. After all I know how to read a knitting pattern. AND I know where to go to look for a better understanding of anything I don't know... YOUTUBE. SO I learned and crocheted her this panda hat she thought she couldn't live without.

 

 



Invader Zim Gir Hats

 

 Then one day the girls saw a Gir hat. Do you know who Gir is? Gir is the dog on this show called Invader Zim. And Gir's fav food is waffels and tacos. Apparently it was all the rage. And I had a special place in my heart for Invader Zim. This Zim is actually an alien trying to act like a human on Earth. So he does all these things that are rediculous and then he stands up and looks around and says, "I am normal." I find this the funniest thing. Because I think we all feel like people are spying the alien in us sometimes. And we want to be normal. So I made 4 Gir hats, two for my girls and two for their friends.

And so started our obsession with hats...

That, and I undreaded my dreadlings of 5 years...


and can again wear normal sized hats...



Yay for the hats, sad for the dreads gone.