My new favorite fashion item didn't come in a shopping bag or from one of those big brown trucks that frequently stop at my house.

It came packaged in a cool aluminum can, the kind that paint comes in, stuffed with comic book pages.

It's a hat.

Not just any hat. It's a Creatadome, a one-of a kind, handmade, crocheted hat made by Moye, a well-known photographer in the Qcity.

Moye has been a Charlotte photographer for 10 years and has shot photos of R&B singer Anthony Hamilton and songstress Ledisi, to name a few. Now, after years of building her brand, she felt a desire to do something different.

"Everyone knows me for photographer," she said. "But that's not all that I am."

I first learned that Moye was crocheting hats after she began dropping hints on her Facebook page.

Why hats? I finally asked her.

"I needed a creative outlet,” she said. “Everybody gets in those burnout stages, and I needed to do something else, first for me and to also make other people aware of my other artistic capabilities."

Taught to crochet by her mother at age 11, Moye said she left it behind to focus on other things. But her mother’s recent move back to Charlotte sparked her desire to pick up her needle again. She said she finds crocheting to be meditative and therapeutic.

Moye said it was during a period of self-reflection that she began to think about the potential every human has locked within. It was then, she said, that the idea came to her to make hats. She compares this potential to the secret powers possessed by comic book super heroes.

“It symbolizes the power that we hold, individually and collective,” she said. “Once we change our thought and our thought patterns, then we can put that to use, and that changes the way we see life.”

She called her hat-making business “Creatadome,” and gave it the tagline, "Harness your super power."

Moye said she has made about 55 domes for clients during her first two months in business, but she said she never forces herself to create.

Typically, a hat can take her anywhere from four days to two weeks to make, depending on size and style. She lets clients pick the colors they like. Moye also makes matching scarves, called Wings.

She charges $35 to $85 for hats and $35 to $55 for wings.

For more information, visit her Web site at www.moyephoto.net