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I finished the

lemurbaby costume. Not sure how it'll look - I'll try it on him tomorrow.

The hat is adorable, according to our cleaning lady (though she didn't know what a lemur was. Oh well). I'm still working on the ears - I'm not sure how well they'll stand up.

The tail is longer than the baby.

The white patches on the body look like they were designed by a drunken lemur. I never said I was an artist. Hopefully it'll look better when he's wearing it.

After I finished, I decided to make another hat, since I had the fabric remaining, and didn't want it to go to waste. It was part of an old shirt, one that

koyote had gave me to use as a maternity shirt. I hope he's not mad I cut it up. It was one of two gray shirts I had, and the other used to belong to my aunt, who died. And it was stained (the shirt I cut up, that is).

The hats are pretty simple to make. You make a tube of stretchy fabric as wide as you want the hat to be, and about twice as long. Turn it inside out. If necessary, hem at least one of the edges. Make a twist in the fabric, like this, somewhat off center, closer to the less nicely hemmed edge (I can't believe I just linked to a site on how to fold diapers for purposes completely unrelated to folding diapers). Tie a thread tightly around the center of the twist - I wrapped the thread around several times to make sure it was tight, and then tied it in a bow so I could easily fix it if I screwed up the length (which I did the first try).

Now turn the longer of the two sides right side out, folding it down over the other side. You now have a hat.

If the outside layer is long enough and you'd like it to feel slightly more finished, fold the outside edge up over the inner layer and hem. Decorate if you feel like it.

I learned how to do this from the hat they gave Leif at the hospital.

Me and my hats: