My friend Frank in New York asked me to make him a Pussy Cap that echoed the colors of the Daylight Pacific train and this is what I came up with. It combines 7 different yarns that include various blends of cashmere, alpaca, merino, silk, wool and mohair. Click here to read what he had to say about it.
My friend Chris has purchased several different Pussy Caps from me and is modeling two of them for us here. Hover over the images with your cursor and you'll see a closeup of the yarns. Both caps are pure Merino wool with the one to the right being hand-dyed and handspun by Lisa Souza while the one to the left is Koigu Merino, commercially spun and then handpainted by Maie and Taiu Landra of Ontario, Canada. Very different looks but both are beautiful and amazingly soft. Not at all what you would expect from wool.
Millspun Merino Wool
Handspun Merino Wool
Actress Judith Chapman, one of my bestest friends and longtime muse, is modeling a Pussy Cap made from tan alpaca & wool with white Italian cashmere woven into the border.
You can catch Judith most weekdays on TV's Young & The Restless.
Benji is wearing the Pussy Cap that he got for his birthday, one of the very first ones I made.
Cool, huh?
My longtime friend and fellow photographer Jodi Richfield slipped on one of my Pussy Caps awhile back and let me take some pictures of her on the beach in Laguna. Jodi is a former model and one of the very first people I photographed back when I was getting started in the business some twenty+ years ago.
The Pussy Cap Jodi's wearing is crocheted with an olive-green alpaca/wool blend from England and then accented with a pure silk ribbon yarn from Japan, both of which really bring out her beautiful emerald green eyes. Her son James is wearing a Pussy Cap made with alpaca, merino and yak down.
My son-in-law Trent at the beach in Laguna wearing one of my signature Wave Caps. And below his wife and my daughter Auri in Italian cashmere.
I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but this is their son Jace.
My friends Brian, Jenny & Matt looking so dahling in Pussy Caps that I just happened to have in my backpack when we went to dinner at Woody's in Laguna one night.
Later that same year I found myself on the beach in my cashmere Pussy Cap being photographed by I have not a clue who. Probably Richard, but who really knows for sure...
Aaah...
Alex and Beth having a moment in their Pussy Caps. It looks like Alex is going to have to grow into his.
My buddy Kristen in her custom Pussy Cap!
Can you believe that mane of hair on her?
Adorable doesn't even quite begin to cover it...
My precious Paige...
Rafe is showing off not only his fabulous new Pussy Cap but his striking profile as well.
Thanks for sending along the picture Rafe. Nice to have it in the collection.
San Francisco sisters Barbara and Billie Parker in their Pussy Caps. The gals came to visit me at a show where Lisa Souza was plying her wares on the wharf in San Francisco and I was crocheting. The smiling sisters left the show with new Pussy Caps and I got this fabulous picture of them standing in front of a rack of Lisa's yarns. I absolutely love the unusual way they wear their caps!
My namesake Aidan Thomas in a Pussy Cap he inherited from his older brother.
