I use knitting looms and occasionally embroidery techniques to make beanie hats, inspired by varying subjects, often pride flags, sometimes characters from media or just a given colour palette. While flags and colours are more simple, I also enjoy the challenge representing characters presents, as these inspirations more often allow me to draw on the skills I learned weaving in University to develop a strong colour palette, and these are often the hats that I embroider, lending them the stronger identifiers this allows for. Often part of the challenge with those hats then becomes simplifying not just the colours that represent them, but also motifs, which often are the element that makes them most recognisable as being inspired, but every stage of the design process is something I consider and enjoy in the process of making my hats.
