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Making My Hubs a BEER CAN Bday Party Top Hat! No Talking, Crochet TV Binge Video: Making a Triple Tall Beer Can Hat Epic Crochet Birthday Hat Yesss. I crocheted my husband a giant beer can hat for his birthday. He wanted a mix of beers, so I chose some that kind of go together color wise.   6 different beers, 3 each, equals 18 labels! Whew!  The crochet is very stable actually. The only problem with going any taller would be keeping it on your head balance wise. But I might try this with tall cans sometime. Fun!! I do have a multi-level Beer Can Party Hat tutorial  in the works right now, so I'll definitely be posting that soon.    Meanwhile, here is a video of me making this giant crochet Beer Can Birthday Hat .  The video was taken this past winter. It was rainy and cold out, I spent a few days making this hat and binging cheesy shows. Like ya do. I left some of the sound in because it cracked me up. My cat Harry makes a brief appearance as well.  He's so stinkin cute! haha.

  BEER CAN Granny Square Bucket Hat Down & Dirty! Just the Basics Crochet Tutorial   Beer Can Hat Tutorial - Just the Basics! 3 Epic Videos >> 1 Amazing Tutorial As I was finishing up my amazing deluxe 3-in-1 Beer Can Party Hat tutorial ... it came to me. Perhaps not everyone wants to follow a big 3-parter, even if it is awesome. Huh.    So I took the original 3 tutorial videos (links below) and cut them down into 1 Amazing Video, just the basics without all the extra bells and whistles. Huzzah! If you want more detailed instructions, see the original videos linked below.   The can labels are worked similar to a granny square . Easy!!  I included a bucket brim , for the perfect Beer Can Crochet Bucket Hat .   If you're curious about how I became a world famous and published beer can hat designer, see my promo video here:  NEW *Creative* Beer Can Hat Tutorials 2022   Each of my tutorials include: A link to a video tutorial on my youtube channel . A link to a complete

Quick Crochet BEER CAN Hats: Bucket & Cap Brims  3-in-1 Tutorial - Part 3 Quick Crochet Beer Can Hat Tutorial - pt3 This is so fun for me. Ha. I am giving you solid gold right here. So many options and tips, you didn't know Beer Can Hats could be such a crochet design hootenanny. Well, going by what I can find online right now, no wonder! *crickets* Frankly I'm a little shocked nobody else is doing it. But hey, I am here for you . And there are more patterns coming too! Once more let me reiterate. I fully expect you to start taking delicious specialty canned beers to parties, then live crocheting a special hat gift for your host. Dazzling your family and friends, showing the world how funky and cool crochet can be, AND for sure leaving as the Craft Nerd Hero of the night. Yesss! Win win win.   Crochet Party Hero at work.   If you're curious about how I became a world famous and published beer can hat designer, see my promo video here:  NEW *Creative* Beer Can H

  Crochet BEER CAN Rock Star Party Fez!  Easy 3-in-1 Hat Tutorial - Part 2 Ultimate Beer Can Party Hat Tutorial Yay!! I am rolling along with these new tutorials and having a blast. As I was finishing up the last one, it occurred to me that I was not very clear about something. That is, how do I put this?   The deeper purpose of crocheting beer can hats.   See, I have a vision.  When I started making beer can hats, it was as kind of an art nerd party trick. I was an art student who was really into crochet, like I incorporated it into as many of my art classes as I could.  I was also writing my own hat patterns, and I loved the 70s crafts overall. So when I saw a pic somewhere of the 70s beer can hats, it was a no brainer.  I started taking beers to parties, and when the cans were empty, I'd spend the rest of the party crocheting a fabulous host gift. The reactions I would get were always of wonder and amazement. From art students and old grandmas alike! Non crocheters ar

Crochet BEER CAN Party Crown!  Easy 3-in-1 Hat Tutorial - Part 1 Ultimate Beer Can Party Hat Tutorial *All New* Beer Can Hat Designs! Woop!! Finally! I've been reworking and improving my Beer Can Hat crochet patterns like crazy. I'm super excited, maybe too excited, to present all my new designs!  As I mentioned before, these new patterns have simpler construction and a tighter, nicer finish.  They're also much more fun and creative ! With lots of options to personalize your can creations.    If you're curious about how I became a world famous and published beer can hat designer, see my promo video here:  NEW *Creative* Beer Can Hat Tutorials 2022   Each of my tutorials will include: A link to a video tutorial on my youtube channel . A link to a complete pattern in my little store .    Yes! So look out for those. Starting with my...   *Deluxe* 3-in-1 Beer Can Party Hat Crochet Tutorial   Video: Crochet BEER CAN Party Crown! Easy 3-in-1 Hat Tutorial - Pa

  Right now it is early spring, but come summer I am ALL about the Salsa. We now have 2 Salsa Houses, solely for growing our tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers of all sorts.      I made a short video of the Houses and canning some salsa:  Salsa Time!        We always said that when we found our dream place, we wanted to learn to grow and preserve food. And that's what we did. Neither of us had gardened at all before we moved here. We started small, and learned along the way. Lots of youtube and google. I'd say 90% of our efforts survived even though we know nothing. Ha! I mean, if we can do it anyone can!    Bride of Salsa House Last year's Veggie Zone expansion (we tripled our beds!) meant much more salsa canning, and also some tomato sauce and juice making. Stu (aka Hubs) even got into making his own fermented hot sauces. Pretty exciting! And the bloody mary's were divine.   Here's a quick video tour of our triple sized veg garden:  Mid Summer *Veggie Zone* Tour  

I Used BEER CANS to Make a Wooden Sign  Easy DIY Garden Project I made a thing! Last summer after we overhauled our BBQ Zone, I really wanted to make a sign out of beer cans. I had the vision, I knew how I would do it... I just had never tried before. But it worked great!  I made a whole video about it here:     I Used BEER CANS to Make a Wooden Sign - Easy DIY Garden Project Just to be clear, this is not a complete tutorial. Ha. If it was, it would be much more detailed and informative believe me. This was one of my first how-to video attempts, and has many imperfections. Learning!  BUT I will be showing you the basics of how I made my beer can sign. Call it whatever. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ok! So first thing is to prepare a backing board, I used a piece of plywood which I painted.  Next I figured out how big I wanted my letters to be, and brought up a font on my laptop. When I had them the right size, I traced them onto paper like a light table. Then I cut them out.    I placed them on

 ALL NEW *Creative* Beer Can Hat Tutorials 2022   Triple Tall Beer Can Top Hat! Crochet Tutorial Okay, I hope you are ready for this. I have decided to start making craft tutorials for youtube, starting with the coveted Beer Can Hat. The more I contemplated this project, the more design ideas I came up with. It just sounded fun! Nobody is making giant cool beer can hat patterns. But I am here for you.   I actually made a cute little Promo video here:     NEW *Creative* Beer Can Hat Tutorials 2022   To start, I'm making a 3 part tutorial for the basic Beer Can Party Hat (it is now posted!!), similar to how my original tutorial is laid out. Each part is a step in the process, but each part can also be a whole hat in itself! Hello. So if you are crocheting in a real life party situation, and you get a little too high or start making out or whatever, you can finish it up quickly.  Part 1 is the Crown, Part 2 is the Fez, Part 3 is the Cap. I have simplified the construction to b

 Video: Driving Through Oaxaca to Monte Albán   Another quick post from my trip to Mexico, mostly video. This day (feb 2020) we drove up up up to the ruins at the top of a huge hill just outside of Oaxaca de Juaréz. Actually, I turned on the camera after we drove through a gigantic intersection of death. Okay not death, near death haha. I thought something else wild might happen, but not especially.      Here's the video:  Oaxaca Mexico! Driving to Monte Alban   It is a neat view of the side streets of the city, each turn becoming steeper and steeper until we drove along the cliff to the very top.            The ruins were amazing, I believe one of the largest sites in Mexico. We had breakfast at the beautiful little restaurant overlooking the city. I feel so lucky to have been able to celebrate my 50th juuuust before they locked everything down for covid. More stories and videos to come.  

Video: A Wonderful Wedding Parade in Oaxaca, Mexico   While wandering the long pedestrian street in el centro de Oaxaca city, we found ourselves in the middle of a massive wedding parade or Calenda. It was magical! Giant puppets, bands, and beautiful people in traditional dress as far as we could see. You know I love the full embroidery and skirts, they were everywhere. There was candy flying, and of course the usual shot of mezcal in that little bamboo shot glass. So much fun!! More from my trip coming soon. It's about time! Here's a short video from that day:  Beautiful Oaxaca! Huge Wedding Parade