Cookie Monster Hat

I got a request on my Facebook page a couple of weeks ago from a mom wanting a Cookie Monster hat for her little boy. The pictures she attached with it were great inspiration. I spent a couple minutes looking for a pattern that I could follow (I haven't gotten the hang of writing my own patterns yet), but couldn't find one that I liked or even looked enough like Cookie Monster.

Using Sarah's Gingerbread Man crochet hat pattern at Repeat Crafter Me, I made a baby size hat in Red Heart's Blue Suede. For the eyes I used Sarah's eye pattern for her Owl Hat's. For my Cookie Monster Eyes, instead of starting with a color for the iris and then putting white around that, I made the whole eye white. For the pupils, I started with a Magic Ring and crocheted 6 Half Double Crochets into the ring. I wanted to do the eye and the pupil separately so that I could put them in different positions to give Cookie Monster his "crazy eye" look. The mouth was my own original pattern made up of Double Crochets and Half Double Crochets.

I'm really proud of the way this turned out and can't wait to see how it look on the little guy.