Yellow Cloche Hat With Fall Colors

The sunny Spring cloche gets a new lease on life for the Fall with this brooch in autumnal colors. I've also added several rows to the brim of the hat to give added shade outdoors...

For Earth Week: Mellow Yellow...

It's feeling like Spring, FINALLY...and I'm seeing YELLOW (POLLEN)...everywhere!!! Like here, in this stunning field on the edge of a Connecticut wood...

I felt inspired to create something in yellow, so I created a crocheted tank in a buttery yellow which is very reminiscent of the 70's...

and with the left over wool, I made this cloche...again very 70's...

my passion for yellow led me to look up all the gorgeous shades of yellow, which brought up references to the robes that Tibetan monks wear...

yellow, goldenrod, gold, saffron, orange...

which are coincedentally all of the colors of marigolds...which range from pale yellow to maroon!

a colorful thangka...with as many shades of yellow as the monks above...

fluorescent yellow in the hats of these monks onlooking a mandala painting...

Tibetan prayer flags...

and so I learn that in Tibetan Buddhism, yellow is the color of earth, and thus a symbol of rootedness and the equanimity of the earth...

Easter Bonnet

so it's a couple of days away from Easter, and I'm still in my fur-trimmed woollen house coat AND my hand crocheted pink and black cloche hat-yes, I've become a crocheted hat maker!

this hat does not photograph easily but I want to share how this version also ended up with touches of red - nice...

hat redesigned from crocheted draw-string victorian pouch bags - which were better un-photographed!