Carefree Clothes for Girls (and this boy)

Carefree Clothes for Girls is the latest in the Make Good: Crafts + Life series of Japanese craft books to be translated into English. This one is due out next week, and now available for pre-order on the publishers website as well as from Amazon.

I got an early peek at it, and promptly fell in love. With each of these books, there's been a silly moment of excitement opening them up and seeing - get this: English! - in the pages and on the patterns. It makes reading and sewing, um, easier when you can understand the language. You know? Yeah.

Rather serendipitously, some gorgeous wool jersey (thank you, Megan!) arrived on the very same day as the book. And with the coming cooler season approaching, the White Melton Hat popped out as something I wanted to make right now. (There's so much more I'm looking forward to getting to soon...) Harper requested the hat too, as you can see. Though he may have wanted to just eat the book's pages, I can't be certain.

The pattern was clear and the hat came together smoothly in little time at all. With the wool jersey on the outside, I used a soft organic hemp/cotton fleece on the inside (I think it's this stuff from NearSea Naturals), and a vintage wool blanket scrap for the strap. And then I put it on my sweet boy and it nearly made me want to gobble him up whole. See for yourself. Look at those silly faces  he gives me, and then imagine all the sounds associated from such funny faces, add the soft cheeks...and please tell me how I was to resist eating him up?

Impossible, I tell you. Impossible.

(We love the hat, too. And the book is lovely.)