Gorgeous! Is it knit or crochet, and what was the yarn you used? This one is pretty, but I can see the darker one looking like real mink!
Almost as pretty as my Coyote Hat or my Raccoon Ear band, LOL! I got the hat from my Mom - she doesn’t DARE wear it where she lives or the anti-fur people will harm her, and Beau had the ear band made for me from a pretty raccoon he got last season. ;)
It is crochet - super easy, all single crochet in a spiral.
I am very disappointed in the colors - what I got is MUCH lighter than what it shows on Amazon. The “mink” might be much lighter than the photos on the pattern ... she used the “mink” color. When I got the mink, I thought I’d gotten another ‘chinchilla’ until I compared the two. We’ll see how it works out. Even if lighter (and it will be), the person I was originally making the hat for will look good in it.
The chinchilla color (which looks like a darker gray online) is NOT good on me so I just ordered 2 skeins of “Red Panda” ... that should be “interesting”! It’s a solid color so it has the texture of fur, but doesn’t look like an animal pelt.
This yarn is Lion Brand Go For Faux. It frogs beautifully - a really good feature because you’re bound to get the count wrong on a row (or 2 or 3!). The yarn is like a tape on one side & fur on the other.
https://www.lionbrand.com/products/go-for-faux-yarn
Something else I learned from watching a video - to connect skeins or cut out a knot (I had one), you SEW the ends together. I overlapped them slightly with both tape sides facing me, then put the needle in on the ‘tape’ side & without pulling the thread through stuck the needle back through the other way. IF you pull the thread all the way through, then come back the other way, you pull fur through with it & end up with a mess (how do I know this? aaarrrggghhh!). The sewing is very neat - you hardly know you have a join when crocheting & it certainly doesn’t show up in your work.
Here’s the pattern ...
https://www.twoofwands.com/blog/annie-bucket-hat