Printable Noibat Crochet Hat Pattern

Noibat Crochet Hat 

Noibat picture from "Future Authors" Pokemon card

This Christmas one of “Future Authors” requests was a Noibat hat, she says “ She is so cute!” So I looked around on-line and there wasn’t one we could buy at the time, and there was not a pattern we could buy either. 

This meant creating my own pattern.  I started thinking about how challenging it is to make gifts for my children because what they want doesn’t exist(ex: a Noibat hat) or is way out of our budget. 

So I decided to record my process as I created the hat so that if anyone else ran into the same dilemma as us, these patterns would hopefully make it easier for them. I have never tried to create a crochet pattern for someone else to use, so I hope this makes sense. If you have any questions please let me know and I will try to answer your question(s). 

Terms you need to know

Ch------Chain stitch

Dc------Double crochet

Hdc----Half double crochet

Lp------Loops

Sc------Single crochet

Sk------Skip

Sl st----Slip stitch

Tr-------Triple crochet

Yo------Yarn over

Yoh-----Yarn over hook

Turn-----Turn your work so you can work back for the next row.

Mc-------Magic circle

Fasten off

Inc-------Increase

Dec------Decrease

Sl knot--Slip knot

St---------Stitch

Repeat---Do it again

I used a Size H Hook

After looking at several pictures and watching the show with my kids

 I created the following color samples

 of what I believe are the colors present on Noibat.

 I hope this will help you get the closest color match possible.

Yarn color samples

Noibat hat, nose, eyes pattern

Step#1   
Start with the base Hat.

Step#2  

  

 The nose.

Step#3   

  

  

 

  

  

 

  

 

 

The eyes

Here is a template for what it should look like that you can use for scale and placement of the eyes and nose.

Noibat face layers

Step#4   

Add ears next. 

  

  

  

 

 

  

 

That's all the parts of the ears.

  

  

  

  

  

   

  

  

  

 

  

  

 

  

Below are the instructions for the ears you can print.

Noibat Ear pattern

Here is a template for what it should look like that you can use for scale and placement of the ears.

Noibat ear layers

Here is the pattern for the, I am calling them frills , I couldn't find out the name for what they are called.

Noibat frill pattern

Step#5   

  

  

 

Here is a template for what it should look like so that you can use it for scale.

Noibat frill template

Cost benefit analysis 

between making the Noibat hat myself 

and 

buying it new

Tools	Price if new	Price we paid	Time to get new spent	Time to get we spent
Size H hook	2.28	0.00  already had	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Parts
Her Majesty colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Lilac Rose colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Hint of Heather Colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Raspberry Glaze colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Enduring Bronze colored yarn	3.77	2.50	40 minutes to get to and from the store	40 minutes to get to and from the store
Wilsome Lilac colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Brite Lime colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Waxberry colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Black colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
White colored yarn	3.77	0.00 left over	40 minutes to get to and from the store	0
Time to Procure
			7-10  business days shipping if bought new from someone else	17 hours and 40 minutes
Price	39.98 to make it myself all new  parts and tools 50.00 to buy it already made is the closest I found on line.	2.50 for the part I didn’t have.

Skylander Island Shelves

Skylander Island Shelves

One of the games our entire family enjoys is Skylanders. We play it together, laugh and cheer when it’s a fight against Kaos. Our family quotes the games the way other families quote movies.

It’s now game five for the Skylander series and each family member has characters they like play from the different elements. We slowly added more characters with each game as it came out. As a result we have ended up with what I thought was a lot of Skylanders (until I looked up the list for each element); too many to keep organized easily on a single shelf.

So as the next organization project for our family room my husband requested that I make something to organize the Skylander characters better. He wanted something that would allow us to easily find different characters from certain elements when we needed them.

I went to work researching online.  As I looked there were some neat shelves and organization systems I saw others create.

 However, I saw some limitations in imitating the structure of what I had found.  The limitations being: one, not a lot of room for expansion, two, visually bland and three it needed to be fun and easy to know where to put the Skylanders; so that our kids would want to put things away when they were done.

 I acknowledge that my issue with the visual is not a real problem but if I was going to go to put in the work to make eleven shelves: one for each element and one for the magic items I wanted it to be more visually interesting.

Eventually I decided to make shelves that looked like the islands you fight on. This way if we ended up with more Skylanders than could fit on a shelf for that element than I could build another shelf and make a bridge joining the two islands. Problem two, it’s not visually bland to me. Problem number three, only time will tell if it’s going to work.

If you are interested in seeing how I built these continue reading.

Step#1

I took a board that was 16” wide and 26” tall and drew with marker the shape of an island. Then I cut it out.

Step#2

  

  

 

 I took wood slats from the bunkbed our girls broke and laid the slat next to the top of the island. Then I marked the edge and cut it. 

  

 

 Then I took a ruler and marked a 4 inch line from the top edge and then took another slat and laid it on top of the wood against the line I had drawn and then cut.

  

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

  I repeated this step measuring down every 4 inches and cutting the wood to match the width of the island. I did this until I was at the bottom of the island.

Step#3

 

 I then took the slat that I had cut for the top of the island and Spiderman Jr held the board in place while I pre-drilled the holes. Then we put the screws in from the top. 

 

  

  

 

 

 

 For all the shelves below the top shelf we pre-drilled through the back of the shelf and then screwed it to the island.

Step#4

 

Then we painted the top shelf green like grass and everything below that brown like dirt and let it dry.

Step#5

We used a stud finder to make sure there were no electrical problems in the wall. Marked where it was safe and drilled holes for wall anchors in the walls and islands. Then we screwed the shelves into the wall anchors.

Step#6

The kids got to decide which island is the home for which elements. There was quite a bit of debate among our kids as to which element needed which island. It was nice to see them discuss and come to their own agreements.

Materials              ___________            Cost

Wood- from a broken bunk bed 

and scraps from other projects               0.00

Screws- left over from another project

Paints-green and brown                         7.00

Wall anchors -                                        7.00

Total Cost___________________________

                                                              14.00