How to Make a Crochet Hat

If you want to know how to make a crochet hat, I have quite the story to tell you. If you are like me, one who lives alone, has many children or possible grandchildren on the way, crocheting a hat may be a great way to use your free time. Making things like baby hats and such are fantastic presents to give away. Learning how to make a crochet hat is not hard. When you have good instructions, you can crochet just about any size or type of hat you would like. After learning the right way to crochet, I was enjoying spending my free time crafting instead of spending it in front of the television or computer. Plus, I have something to show for my time spent. When giving crocheted gifts to close friends and family, I get to remember time well spent when noticing them wearing my crocheted items. There is no greater feeling, in my mind, than seeing things I have made, being worn by people I love.

After you have your yarn and hook to crochet your hat, you would start to crochet around to begin the process. You will want to keep crocheting in the round until it is the proper size for the persons head. When you reach the desired size, slow down your crocheting in the loops. This means you would just do two crochet every other loop instead of each one. This will produce the sides of the hat. Continue doing this until your hat reaches the desired length.

Learning how to make a crochet hat may also lead you in the path of life with less stress. I find crocheting to be a very good stress reliever. Just being able to sit and craft things at my own pace is nice and love to show off what items that are made. So If you have that free time on your hands, and this does include sitting on the couch wanting television, I suggest you give crocheting a try and learn how to make a crochet hat.

How to Make a Crochet Hat

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Bible Story Crafts For Kids - The Good Shepherd Craft & Game

This adorable sheep is one of our Easy Bible Story Crafts for Kids for kindergarten, first grade and second grade. Creating and displaying this cute, fluffy sheep reinforces the Scripture that tells us Jesus watches over us and calls us, like a good shepherd calls his sheep.

This is one of our Kids Bible Crafts that is complimented by a game. The craft and game help children to remember the verses: "I am the good shepherd. I know each of My sheep by name, and My sheep know Me." "Those who come through Me will be saved. They will have everything they need." Scripture: John 10:1-21

Supplies

Bible Story Crafts For Kids - The Good Shepherd Craft & Game

Empty toilet paper roll Cotton balls (30 to 40) 4 Q-Tips Elmer's School Glue White tissue paper Brown pipe cleaner (only if a ram) Clear tape Disposable container (such as a margarine container) Black construction paper Paper punch or scissors
Directions

For support, stuff paper (any kind) inside the toilet paper roll, leaving about an inch empty from the end. Create the sheep's legs by taping the Q-tips to toilet paper roll. Create the sheep's head by scrunching up some tissue paper and stuffing part of it into the end of the roll. Pour a little glue into the container. To add the sheep's wool, dip cotton balls into the glue and press onto the cardboard roll. Once it is covered, add another layer or more until the sheep is nice and wooly. Create the eyes with a paper puncher and the construction paper. Use glue to adhere to the front of the sheep's tissue paper face. For a ram, do Steps 1-6 and then add horns, which are made by twisting pipe cleaner into two curly cues and attaching with glue. Allow to dry.
Displaying the Sheep

Before children bring their sheep home, you may want to create a classroom display:

Begin with a tray of wheat grass you've grown and trimmed short or Easter basket grass spread out evenly. Add shepherd or Jesus figurine or paper doll. Invite children to add their sheep to assemble the flock around the shepherd!
Stray Sheep Game

This tag game is sort of a classroom version of the backyard pool game, Marco Polo. The child playing the stranger is blindfolded and stands in the center of the circle. The others are the sheep and wander around the inside of the circle.

The blindfolded stranger tries to tag the sheep. When calling "Sheep!" the others must reply with "Baa-baa." The first sheep tagged takes the place of the stranger. This game reinforces the lesson that just like the sheep we should only answer to our Good Shepherd.

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Are you looking to make some new holiday ornaments for your Christmas tree this year? If so, I have a great project to share with you today.

These no-sew, quilted ball holiday tree ornaments are super easy to make and require absolutely no machine sewing! What is even better yet is the fact that this is a great project to use up all of those little fabric scraps that you have laying around that are left over from other sewing projects.

Supplies You Will Need:

Craft Project - No-Sew Quilted Ball Holiday Tree Ornaments

2 1/2" diameter Styrofoam ball

6" piece of 1/4" wide lace (I used white)

Various color small scraps of fabric (cottons or cotton blends work best)

All-Purpose Liquid Craft Glue (the kind that dries clear)

Sharp Fabric Scissors

Small Flat-Head Screw Driver or Butter Knife

Foam Paint Brush

Straight Pins

Note: You can use 1/4 wide lace or 1/4" wide satin ribbon for the ornament hanger. Since there is a little gluing involved, take the time to protect your work surface.

Tip: You will want to lay out all of your fabric scraps and sort them into color coordinating piles. Take the time to put colors together that work well with one another.

Trim your fabric scraps down to odd-shaped pieces. I have used rectangles, squares, circles and ovals. You should use different shapes that are different sizes to give it a true quilted look.

Use your screw driver or butter knife to slightly indent a space that is the shape of your fabric square on your Styrofoam ball. This indented shape should be slightly smaller than your actual fabric shape.

Use your foam paint brush and spread a very thin layer of craft glue inside the indented shape. Place your fabric shape on top of the glue and use the edge of your screw driver or butter knife to push the fabric edges into the indent and push hard to squeeze the edge of the fabric down into the ball.

You will want to repeat that step the entire way around your ball until it is completely covered.

Using a 6" piece of satin ribbon or lace, shape it into a hanging loop. Dab the end of a straight pin into the craft glue and poke it through the end of your hanging loop and push it down into your foam ball. Let this dry for 30 minutes before hanging it onto your holiday tree.

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Shelly Hill is a mother and grandmother living in Pennsylvania who enjoys sewing, quilting, crafting and scrapbooking. You can visit Shelly's online craft blog called Passionate About Crafting at http://passionateaboutcrafting.blogspot.com for free craft project ideas and tips. You can find a photo of the completed project on her blog at http://passionateaboutcrafting.blogspot.com/2009/12/no-sew-quilted-ball-holiday-tree.html

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If you're trying to decide what to make and sell online, woodworking projects are often dismissed because many people don't feel that they have the skills necessary to do these types of crafts. Contrary to that belief, there are a significant number of woodworking projects that are easy to do and require little to no prior experience or skills.

Plywood can be purchased at various thicknesses and is a great starting material for novice woodworkers. Measuring and cutting is very easy. In fact, many of the home improvement stores will cut the plywood for you. You can use pieces of plywood to make model houses, simple trinket boxes, birdhouses, photo frames, mirror frames, and much more. You can also cut plywood into simple shapes and paint it as Christmas ornaments, door hangers, house address numbers, decorative sayings for the kitchen or home and more.

Another great material to start with are popsicle sticks. The standard size and the tongue depressor size are both great because they can be glued together with wood glue and they can be bent to meet your project's needs. To bend popsicle sticks, simply soak them in vinegar to make the wood flexible. Popsicle sticks can be used to make an incredible number of things from small houses to birdhouses, baskets, boxes, figurines, picture frames, ornaments, magnet frames, and more.

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Another popular product that can easily be made of scrap wood or barn boards are rustic picture frames and mirror frames. Primitive benches and birdhouses also sell great using these materials. In some cases, you may need to find a pattern, but much of the time, you can learn how to make these items with simple measurements and cuts.

Precut wood shapes can be purchased from your local craft store at minimal cost. These can be painted to be ornaments or can be glued together to make household crafts. Wooden beads can also be purchased at little expense. These little treasures can either be hand painted or hand carved and then strung into necklaces, bracelets, and other trinkets.

There are so many other creative things you can do with simple things such as twigs and branches. For example, you can cut branches into slices, sand the rough wood down and drill holes to make primitive and natural buttons. Twigs can be gathered up with beautiful ribbon to make small broom ornaments, a favorite around Halloween. Gnarly branch ends can be turned upside down to make a natural jewelry holder. You can decorate vases, ball jars, votive candle holders, picture frames, mirrors, plaques and more with small, uniformly sized twigs to give the item a rustic feel. These are great seasonal items as well as year round items for a cabin or country home.

Tree branches have been used to create beautiful centerpieces, wreaths, family trees, wall branches and more. There is truly no limit to what you can do with and make from these items. You're limited only by your own creativity.

Wood crafts sell wonderfully online, partially due to the fact that many people that they lack the skills to accomplish woodworking projects. Starting these projects is much easier than many people think and as with any skill, the more you do, the better you become.

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The process of making body lotion is actually fairly easy. First off you will need to gather your lotion making supplies that include the following: an emulsifying wax, oil, water, a colorant, and a fragrance.

Step one: The first step in making body lotion is to mix your oils and water in with your emulsifying wax. This will create the base of your lotion. The emulsifying wax is what keeps the water and oils from separating.

How to Make Homemade Body Lotion

Step two: The second step in making body lotion is to add your essential oils or fragrance oils. Essential oils will make your body lotion scented and can provide aromatherapy effects. Fragrance oils can also be used to give your lotion a nice scent.

Step three: The third step in making body lotion is to add your colorants. These colorants can be from a laboratory or they can come from natural sources. If you plan on marketing your handmade skin care products as natural skin care products then you will want to use natural coloring agents like paprika, mica, or oxides.

Step four: The fourth step is to bottle your product. You can place your lotions into a jar, tube or into a pump or squirt bottle. You can make custom labels to attach on the bottles with your company name, logo and ingredients.

In addition to making a basic body lotion you can also add things to the lotion to make it special. One popular additive to body lotion is glitter. Other popular additives for body lotions are SPF and tint.

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