Hippo Hat

I am a Facebook member of a local buy/sell/swap page and A woman from the East Coast was advertising that she makes hats and posted pictures of some (trademarked) designs of baby and kid hats. Another lady inquired if there was a hippo hat available and how much. The woman who makes the hats said no and that she does not have a pattern for that.

Neither do I, but is that honestly going to stop me? I posted that if she was willing to wait until after the holidays I could have something for her.

I spent all day Monday, referencing previous patterns I have used, along with a free nothing special hat pattern and making the rest up as I went along. The making it up part was about %40 of the hat. Just over 9 hours later, between making the hat, making dinner and keeping a 14 month old who's teething occupied...

Well after several anxious days of trying to upload ONE picture, here it is. Gah!
A wrote out a pattern to this and, I used up all my purple yarn.