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I was talking to my 3 1/2 year old son tonight while he ate dinner, and the following conversation took place:

Me: Noah, do you want a new hat this year?

Noah: Yes, mommy. Where is it?

Me: I have to knit it first. What color hat do you want? Red? Orange? Blue...?

Noah: (thinks a minute) I want a purple hat, Mommy!

Me: Okay, I love purple! What else do you want on it? Do you want stripes?

Noah, yeah, I want Blueberry stripes!

Me: oooooh...kay. Blueberry stripes sound great! A purple hat with blueberry stripes?

Noah: yah, and Go Diego! on it

Me: (thinking to myself--holy crap, how am I going to knit that???) Okay, a purple hat with blueberry stripes and a Go Diego! on it??? That sounds great, Noah!

Noah: No, mommy, not Go Diego! I want Oswald. (his favoriite children's character)

Me: Okay. You want a purple hat with blueberry stripes and a picture of Oswald on it?

Noah: yah!! that's what I want.

Now I ask you all for some adivice. Any ideas on what shade of purple would go with "blueberrry" stripes? Here's a link to Oswald (an octopus) so you can see what he looks like. He's blue, too.

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was thinking of making the hat purple and blue striped and puttingthe Oswald image in the center after running it through a knittingchart software that I found online. Any ideas or advice welcome! HELP!!!!

lisa

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karlisa
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LISA , you have a Wonderful Kid ,,,, with a heathy imagination ,,,, now i would advise you to knit the stripes ,, yet Embroider Oswald Over the knitted stripes ,, in the system of little eyelets that imitate the knitted stitches ,,,, mirjam

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mirjam

Now that i looked at the image you sent YES by all means embroider it over the hat ,, how do you plan to knit the hat , are the stripes going in the vertical or down wards ,? mirjam

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mirjam

I agree with you Mirjam, I looke at the image and I would embroider it rather than try to make small octopus legs in knit

It is possible to get the colors. The shades would be close, I believe it would look COOL.

dENNIS

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Spike Driver

I think I'll do horizontal stripes. I had considered knitting him the hat a basic style hat of purple and blue (blueberry) stripes and then knitting a separate 3-D Oswald and sewing that on top instead of a pom- pom I could knit the octopus as a ball, embroider the face and stuff it and then make I-cord legs to sew on to the body. Would that work?

lisa

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karlisa

I was also thinking of knitting the hat purple, and then knit just 3 rows of blue stripes bordered by one stripe of black to set them off and then the rest of the hat in purple. The blue could match the Oswald color.

lisa

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karlisa

I might make a 2-color ribbed band on the bottom and the rest of the hat purple, and then duplicate st the octopus on plus maybe something else from the show, perhaps just "Oswald" on the other side of the hat in duplicate st block letters.

Or, if I wanted to be really different, I might be tempted to do a

2-color rib and then instead of a pompom put the octopus body at the very top of the hat and make I-cord legs and randomly sew them down or leave them to dangle like tassels.

Leah

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Leah

Yes, I was thinking of knitting the octopus body as a ball and then lightly stuffing it, embroidering the face and sewing it tot he top of the hat with I-cord legs! I think that would be very cute.

I'm actually getting a little excited about knitting this for him. :-)

lisa

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karlisa

This sounds/reads very original and pleasing mirjam

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mirjam

That sounds adorable! The only thing I'd be concerned about is that he might change his mind before then? So make sure it can be removed in case that happens! Before I read your idea I was going to suggest finding a store-bought Oswald patch that you could sew on so that you hadn't invested too much in it should he change his mind but your idea sounds much cuter :)

LauraJ

Yes, I was thinking of knitting the octopus body as a ball and then lightly stuffing it, embroidering the face and sewing it tot he top of the hat with I-cord legs! I think that would be very cute.

I'm actually getting a little excited about knitting this for him. :-)

lisa

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LauraJ

lisa-

that would be so way cool and adorable!

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betsey

Lisa, If it helps- I just bought a chunky yarn with the color named "Blueberry". Here is a link:

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are also purples on the same page. Marilyn

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Marilyn

Karlis,

I found this,

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might cover two of your colors, it is cheap and will last much dirt and many washes. You can also purchase it in the larger super saver size. Hugs & God bless, Dennis & Gail

karlisa wrote:

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Spike Driver

Dennis, This looks much more "kid friendly" than the yarn I suggested.

Marilyn

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> It might cover two of your colors, it is cheap and will last much dirt and > many washes. You can also purchase it in the larger super saver size. >> Hugs & God bless,

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Marilyn

Sounds wonderful, but I would put Oscar on the top on the hat, with his tentacles running down the sides. And, unless your son wants the stripes on the whole hat, I would just put them in the turned-up rib section. I always put a turned-up rib section on toques.

Good luck!

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

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