I must have been a very good girl this year, because in my stocking was a copy of Eugenia Kim's Saturday Night Hat. I am a huge fan of hats - I find them a great way to cover up 'bad hair days' and a good accessory when you're looking to spruce up an outfit. So, it's no suprise that this book was high on my wish list.

Probably the biggest question everyone will want to know is, "What styles of hats are included in the book?" There are 8 main styles of hats (and lots of variations within each one): beret, cloche, cocktail (which includes a pillbox style), the fedora (a purchased hat that is further embellished), baseball cap, engineer cap, newsboy, and sun hat. Variations of each style range from 'traditional" (i.e your standard hat in conventional fabrics) to kitchy - a 'french toast' pillbox, Hello Kitty cocktail hat, and 'haircut hat' which is a felt, molded and shaped to your head like a piece of hair. Although a bit obscure, it is the hat that Taylor would like for me to make her, I call it Polly Pocket hair - at least she can change her hair style without permantly doing so!

Of course, Saturday Night hat gives you the details on creating all of these looks for yourself, but are there any dissapointements? Not really. With some styles, such as the fedora, you are simply embellishing vintage hats, which means you have to find a color, style, and size that already fits you. Additionally, with all the hats you make from this book, you're stuck with 'medium' sizing (there are details on how to 'shrink' or 'stretch out', but since I haven't tried them yet, I'm not sure how well they work or how long it truely takes) - which is fine, unless you have a baby sized head, like mine.

The directions are easy to follow and most styles look like they will sew up relatively quickly. Which means I can sew up a hat in the afternoon and have it to wear by that night! Keep an eye out for future projects that come from this book!