"When buying from an artist/maker, you're buying more than just an object/painting. You are buying hundreds of hours of failures and experimentation. You are buying days, weeks & months of frustration and moments of pure joy. YOU AREN'T JUST BUYING A THING, you're buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a moment of someone's life. Most importantly, you're buying the artist more time to do something they are passionate about." - unknown

This project consists of making lightning bug hats to prepare for the winter. The support enables me to acquire the necessary supplies and work at a steady pace to create and improve upon the hats.

Risks and challenges

Time. I make all of these by hand by myself and each one takes between 4 to 8 hours. I want each one to be functional and look like the pictures. While they are wool-free and machine washable the pom-pom would need to be taken off and reattached in order to wash it in a machine without the pom-pom coming apart. Otherwise it is safe to gently wash by hand.

My goal is to start shipping these immediately and finish making and shipping them late fall of 2015.