The Kat who designed the Hat…

And the Kat in the Hat…

The Kat who designed the Hat may have heard me swearing at wool today (the Kat in the Hat unfortunately did) as I sewed and unsewed those goggles countless times! Sewing is not my thing. But I got there in the end.

Cool Hat huh? I was supposed to be making a baby one but as soon as my Kat set eyes on the pattern she had to have it. I blame the utter cuteness that is Theo…

I spent a lovely Saturday morning hooking with some Hillfoots ladies at Kat (who designed the Hat)’s first Crochet Workshop. There are more to come, but I’m going to have to get to work on her to add another hat design session cos I CANNOT MAKE THAT ONE!

So I came away with this Kit. It’s a Kat-Kit ha! The pattern, hook and all the wool needed to make Kat’s Copilot hat from newborn to adult size. Coming soon to Etsy. It’s a fabulous idea… anything that means me not working out what yarn to buy is a fabulous idea. Anything that keeps me and my Visa card out if luscious wool shops with no direction and no sense of proportion is a Good.Idea.

So yes, more workshops are planned – you must go to one – really.

Even if you’re cack-handed and can’t tell one end of a hook from another go for @JuliaRiddell1‘s cupcakes and Kat will have you crocheting before you’ve even noticed.

Kat’s blog was the first British blog I found. It took about two years for me to cross the divide that is the Ochil Hills and travel the long 45 minute drive to meet her. There’s something more than a bit special when you meet a blogger for the first time… especially when they are exactly who they are on their blog and you have that weird “I know you but I don’t know you but I do know you….” moment. Those are my favourite blogs. The ones inhabited by real people.

Kat’s blog is wonderful. Tis a thing of beauty. And is inhabited by very real people…

… with amazingly cool accents