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[Updated to add:  I ended up low-balling it and charging them $75.  I broke it down on the receipt by actual yarn cost and labor.  Either of the other ways came out to more than I felt good about charging them.  If they want to pay me more, fine, and they can probably afford it being that they're a two-income family, and he's a manager at Hubby's company, but I felt weird charging more.  Then again, Saloni charged someone $80 make a pair of socks....]

 OK, here be the hats for Sanjesh’s baby.  Still nailing down how much I’m going to charge for them.  Two schools of thought I’ve heard are:

1. Double the price of the yarn
2. The price of the yarn + 10c or 20c per yard used

Green hat is Cascade Luna (cotton).  All the other hats are either Filatura di Crosa Zara or Karabella Aurora 8 — washable wool.  I really liked how they turned out.  The white one is plain except for the topknot.  With the others, I wanted to do something fancier.  Since you can’t really do lace for a boy (well, I suppose you could), I went for texture instead.

Now, to find some hemp yarn to make something for Jubal & Nichole’s soon-to-come baby boy.  (I was going to make an argyle set b/c Jubal’s a golfer, but Hubby stopped me b/c that’s not their style at all.  They’re more hemp type of people.  Is there hemp yarn?  Hee, hee, hee!  Time to purchase some hemp yarn….