I had found this pattern on Ravelry and loved it the minute I saw it. The pattern was in a hard covered pattern book. I checked ebay and the book was selling for $50 or more. So I sort of gave up on finding the pattern. I looked at afghan patterns on Etsy and it was in a smaller booklet that was printed in Canada and was selling for around $10 plus postage so I ordered it.
I finally got to start and decided that I didn't like 63 as the number. It would be assembled as 9 squares by 7 squares, so wouldn't fold equally. To make it equal, I added a row of black and then would need only 48 squares. When I started making it, there were a couple afghans already completed on Ravelry. As I worked along, I decided to put a row of color around my square and then another row of black. That took considerably less squares. I ended up using only 15 squares of my 48 hats. The crocheted ribbons on the hats were sort of hiter and thither, so I decided to tack them completely down. It didn't take long and I think they look neater.
If I use up my unused hats, or chapeaus they are called, I will use white yarn, so the puppy hair doesn't adhere to it so quickly.
Walter decided it needed to be used in a more pratical purpose. I had it draped on the couch and in the morning, he had scratched it down to lay upon. The little hats popped right back into shape when I shook it to put it back in place. So he proved that it was a practical as well as pretty afghan.
