Giveaway: Win Professional Photos for Your Party!

Kids Party

Photographer Central is the most comprehensive directory for finding and hiring professional photographers. It’s simple to use and you can find a photographer for any event in your life including kids or adult parties! Their site is designed to make your research process as streamlined as possible using filters that allow you to sort by price, style, genre, location, as well as an option to save businesses to a favorites group for easy comparison.

To find the perfect photographer on Photographer Central:

Specify a location and your keywords.
Start scrolling through all of the high-res photos.
If you need to narrow down your search results use the secondary filters that narrow by style, price, distance and more.
Once you find a photographer that you want to learn more about, open up their profile and you will find a full snapshot of that photographer’s reputation with recommendations submitted directly to not only Photographer Central, but also from Yelp and Google Business. You will also find the photographers contact information with the ability to message them instantly.

Are you worried about how you’ll look in your party pix? Here’s how to look your best in photos, courtesy of Photographer Central Pro Hari Simons:

Standing up straight not only long elongates your body, but it also helps you exude confidence, which is always attractive. Try pulling your shoulders back, chest forward, and extend your chin forward just slightly.
Getting photographed from below can add the illusion of a double chin so make sure the camera is at least at eye-level.
When it comes down to it, one of the best things you can do is simply relax. If you’re stressed about how you look, that feeling will come through. So just smile naturally and have fun!

If you have a special event coming up, Photographer Central has generously offered to provide one lucky Craft Gossip reader with a $50 gift card to use towards purchasing photography services from their site. To enter, leave a comment telling me what type of party you have planned that you want great pictures of. I’ll choose a random winner on June 24.

UPDATE: Lucky #7 is our winner. Thank you all for entering.

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I haven’t knit a lot of hats, because I don’t wear hats that often, and because I don’t wear hats that often, the ones I have knit tend to be pretty basic and utilitarian. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s also nothing wrong with treating yourself to a lovely hat that takes a little more time to knit but will also be a joy to wear whenever you need to.

I think the Two Grey Hills hat from Tressa Weidenaar is an example of that second kind of hat. With its allover colorwork design and use of DK weight yarn, this is going to take you longer to knit than, say, a ribbed hat in bulky yarn. But you’ll also get that time to enjoy the process and reflect on the meaning behind the colorwork, which is inspired by Navajo weavings.

The pattern calls for two colors of DK yarn and is available in two sizes, adult medium and large. Two colors with a nice contrast will be helpful for seeing the design, which is somewhat intricate in places.

Despite that, this isn’t a difficult pattern if you’ve done stranded knitting before. You need to know how to cast on, knit, purl, work in the round, do colorwork from a chart and decrease stitches to make this hat.

Make this hat with a soft yarn and you’ll want to wear it all day, every day when the weather is cold. You can grab the pattern on Ravelry, and also check out the Rug Weaver’s Headband, which has a different look but is also inspired by Navajo weaving. The headband might be a better choice to knit if you don’t live somewhere where you need a winter hat that often.

Looking for more hats? Check out these hat knitting patterns that use worsted weight yarn leftovers.

[Photo: Tressa Weidenaar]

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