Surface Braid Hat + New look!

Hello!!!!
MG asked me a few days ago to make a seaman cap for him... I found this pattern on Ravelry, and he liked it... I started working on it a week ago... it's coming out nice and it seems that it will be very good for the cold as the fabric is thick and nice, but it's slow to make, so at the same time I'd been working in some other stuff... you know how this is!! several WIPs at the same time, always!!!
Here is MG's hat so far...

 There I put it over the ball of yarn... in the next picture you can see that I've only acheived like a quarter of the total round of the hat...

So, meanwhile I made a Surface Braid Hat for me (Pattern from Ravelry too)... this one in Acrylic yarn, that I got back in June from the Yarn swap made at We Love Lucy group at Rav...
I decided to go for Acrylic because, as much as I loved my Cabled hat it's really itchy and I'm thinking I might be allergic (just a bit) to wool because when I wear it, it doesn't just itch, but I end up with my forehead all red...

 I Loved the pattern when I first saw it!! It's totaly crocheted, super simple to make and it has a knitted look somehow... I think it's the braid surface that gives it that effect!!!
Here a close up of the texture...

 Plus, it has a different looks on both sides... so it's a reversible hat that you can use with 2 different looks! It's super stretchy and warm... And I kept crocheting until it was long enough to fold the bottom part to have a brim...

Me, looking outside the window... MG took the picture.

It took a complete skein (100g, about 4oz) and I'm completely in love with it... It's cozy, it's nice, soft, great looking....

I am Happy with it!!!

I have a new look... I cut my hair last Saturday... I thought about it for a month and I decided to go for it because I have always had migraines, but it was not until this past month that I felt desperatly that I needed to get rid of the weight of my hair... I've always used it long, very long and I loved that... and now I decided to go short... I hadn't have it this short in more than 20 years...

Here how it was that morning... not super long, but still...

 And here how it's now...

I like it... I am a lot happier than I thought I would be...

I have to go to keep working on secret WiP!!!!! I have only 10 days before Christmas!!! so I better hurry up!

See you soon!

S.