Category Archives: Clothing

Stripey Boys Hat

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For an upcoming baby shower.

My coffee canister is becoming a regular pro at modeling baby hats for me.

I even made a multi-colored pompom! I bought myself a little plastic pompom maker because I was tired of making them without one, using little cardboard circles… guys, it wasn’t working out so well, but now, with this pompom maker, I am a regular pro at it these days.

Loving the blue on blue. There’s just something about stripes that really draws me in. Especially cute little boys in stripes, right? Definitely.

Double Pom-pom Baby Hat

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The second of 3 hats requested. I had a tiny thumbnail of a picture of something she liked, so I wrote up  a little pattern for this hat.

It’s kind of a funny little hat. Again, I don’t have a baby head to model this on, so our coffee canister will have to do…again.

I’ll post the pattern below.

Double Pom-pom Baby hat (Unless you guys can come up with a better name for it!)

Supplies:
Size  4 DPN’s
3 colors of your choice (I used all Vanna’s Choice Yarn)
Pom-Pom maker

Cast on 72 stitches in Purple, join in the round
Rows 1- 8: *Knit 2, Purl 2* Rep to end
(Switch to white)
Row 9-11: Knit to end
Rows 12-14: Purl to end
(Switch to pink)
Rows 15-17: Knit to end
Rows 18-20: Purl to end
(Switch to purple)
Rows 21-23: Knit to end
Rows 24-26: Purl to end
Switch colors every six rows, repeat rows 9-26 two more times (For a total of 9 horizontal ribs)

Bind off all stitches, lay flat and whip stitch closed. Using a pom-pom maker make two pompoms out of the pink and attach to top corners and voila! Enjoy your baby hat.

Grey Lemon Grass

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Made another Lemon Grass slouchy hat for a Christmas order.


It’s a bit softer than the other three I’ve made, since it wasn’t made with such a bulky yarn, but I think it turned out nicely.

My Sister-In-Law is crafty too!

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So, on Saturday my beautiful sister in law, Rennie, got married. She’s so crafty she made her own wedding dress! Seriously, look how beautiful it is!

She did such an amazing job, and it was such a beautiful wedding!

We fly home tomorrow, so more regular posting will resume then.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Wednesday Giveaway.

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So, we’ve got another giveaway on our hands today. It’s a good one, too.


You could win your very own pair of wrist warmers, handknit by yours truly.

So you know the rules- you can enter by:
1. Leaving a comment, telling me how much you want these
2. Putting a link to it on your blog
3. Putting a link onto your Facebook

So, you’ve got 3 chances to get entries into this Giveaway!

But remember, if you put it on your blog, please leave a second (or third!) comment letting me know you’ve done so, so you can get your second (or third!) entry. If you don’t leave a second comment you WON’T get your second (or third!) entry, so make sure to do that, or else your extra entries will not be counted.

The giveaway will be open until Saturday evening 6:00pm.

Heidi was my photographer, and we had a lot of fun goofing off for the camera. I don’t want anyone to think I would pose like that for real! Hah.

Our fall Twilight inspired shot. (This one is for you, Charissa and Autumn)

So, go enter! It’s for your own good! Those wrists aren’t going to keep themselves warm!

 

Comments are now closed! Effie was our lucky winner!!

Lemon Curd Slouch

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This is the Lemon Curd Slouch Hat!

I pulled it out a bit in the back so you can see all the cable detailing. Cabling while decreasing is more complicated than it seems it would be.

Big thanks to Paul for being a good photographer. It’s so hard to take pictures of a hat on yourself.

I’ll  write down the pattern I made up for this hat. For some reason with every pattern I tried on this hat I couldn’t get it to be quite right, but I’m happy with this one!

Pattern:

1 skein Knit Picks, City Tweed HW in Lemon Curd

6.0mm DPN’s

Cast on 80 stitches

Row 1: K1 P1* rep to end
Rows 2-9: same as row 1
Row 10: Knit all the way around, while evenly increasing to 117 stitches (I did K2 M1 until the last 6 stitches and just knit the last 6 of this row)
Row 11-16: Knit 6, purl 3 *rep to end
Row 17: Pull 3 stitches onto cable needle then pull to front, knit 3, then knit the stitches on cable needle, purl 3*rep to end
Repeat rows 11-17 five times
Decrease Row 1: K6, P2T, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 2: K6, P2T,* rep to end
Decrease row 3: K2T, K4,P1 *Rep to end
Decrease row 4: K3, K2T, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 5: K2T, K 2, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 6: K1, K2T, P1 *Rep to end
Cut yarn, leaving a long tail (several inches long), pull tail through all remaining stitches, pull tight, weave in ends.

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P.S. All of you who are wondering where the pattern from the mittens came from, THIS IS THE LINK TO THE MITTENS, unfortunately it’s not my pattern (I only say unfortunately because it’s a gorgeous pattern and I think the writer did a phenomenal job on these mittens, they’re absolutely beautiful!) and also I get asked about once a day where this pattern came from, so CLICK ON THIS LINK and it’ll take you to Subliminal Rabbit’s blog where she has graciously offered the pattern for free!

White Lemon Grass

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Made another Lemon Grass hat for a Christmas order. The yarn I picked up was slightly bulkier than the green one, but I just did it on smaller needles and it turned out the right size.

It’s pretty slouchy!

Ok. Off to work! (less than a week and a half left! Oh my goodness!!)

Mittens.

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I’m pretty excited about this.. still loving working with this yarn. So delish.

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P.S. All of you who are wondering where the pattern from the mittens came from, THIS IS THE LINK TO THE MITTENS, unfortunately it’s not my pattern (I only say unfortunately because it’s a gorgeous pattern and I think the writer did a phenomenal job on these mittens, they’re absolutely beautiful!) and also I get asked about once a day where this pattern came from, so CLICK ON THIS LINK and it’ll take you to Subliminal Rabbit’s blog where she has graciously offered the pattern for free!

Button shirt

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I bought this button shirt from my good friend Alexis at a craft fair this weekend.

It’s a terrible picture, but what can you do when you have short arms and need a self portrait?

Brody!

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I just have to show this off. This is baby Brody! Baby of my dear friend and former roommate Hope Eifert.

He’s wearing the jacket and the booties I made for him! Granted the sweater looks like it’s getting a bit tight, but hey, the booties still fit! And how cute is he, with his blonde surfer hair! I love this little guy!