A head full of stars...

I have a large noggin - it's 23" in circumference and that's before you add in the baby dreadlocks. Increasingly I've been finding hats just don't fit me any more, but being handy with knitting needles and a crochet hook means I can get round that problem.

This is my Nebulae Hat. The yarn was a gift a few years back, and while I love it, I’d never quite figured out what to do with it. I tried knitting with it once but decided fairly quickly that crochet was the best way to show off the yarn. It reminded me of photos from space of nebulae and star clusters - the black moving through to grey like cloudscapes, and the myriad colours of the threads like stars.

I found this infrared photo of the Lagoon Nebula on Wikipedia...

The hat itself is based off part of a crochet block pattern. I took the central circular section and used it as a springboard for the rest of the hat.

It features triple crochet and cluster stitches, and is deep enough to contain unruly dreadlocks. Snug, slouchy and warm.