Hat 129

Just a simple bucket hat made with some wool yarn I had.  All done with a HDC stitch.

Hat 128

Hat 128 made with some white yarn that has a shine in it.  It's a bit holey, but think it will still be very pretty to wear.  I added a flower so the hat would't be so plain.

Hat 127

Hat 127 is a simple beanie done with some extra Homespun yarn I have.  It's always hard for me making hats out of homespun, but they come out so soft that I always want to do more!

Hat 126!

So it's been a while since I've been working on so many projects.  I was able to do a few hats here and there but have not met my goal yet.  I still have a couple months, so I should be good.  Hat 126 was done with 2 strands of Caron Simply soft yarn with a HDC stitch.  I wanted to make the colors to be like a Hawaii sunset over the ocean.  Not sure if I totally got what I was picturing in my head, but I'm still happy with the hat.

Harry Dresden Dolls

My husband is part of a Dresden Files film group and worked on the Skin Game trailer for the newest Jim Butcher book.  We flew to Denver for the Comic Con where he was in a panel with the group for the trailer.  I decided to make little amigurumi dolls for each of the main characters that were in the trailer for fun and hand them out. For a pattern I re-purposed Pixelated Mushroom's Mini Doctor Who dolls and it worked out perfectly!

More Hats for Family!

So I went to Massachusetts during the first couple weeks of June and had a great time.  Here are the rest of the hats I made for my family!

The first 2 hats I made for my Aunt and Uncle.  Both are from patterns by Kathy Lashley at Elk Studio.  The first is the Hounds tooth hat and the second is the Mystic Beanie both made with Caron one pound yarn.  After showing off the Mystic Beanie to Matt he commented on how it looked great on me, so I may make another one for myself sometime.

Next I made a hat for my cousin using some of the Turkish Variegated yarn I have.  The first one I made using the Diamond Ridges pattern by Kristy Ashmore on Ravelry (need acct). The pattern was a bit confusing and in the end turned out a little small.  So I had another ball of yarn in a different color that I personally liked so tried again but used the Lattice Hat pattern on Rheatheylia.  That one was much easier and turned out a little larger.  Since the pink one didn't fit my cousin I will be either taking it apart to re-use the yarn or buying some new yarn to make a Lattice Hat.  I haven't decided yet.

Hats for Family!

I'll be headed off to Massachusetts to visit family this week and I made a bunch of hats to give out. All were made using patterns I found.

My cousins have twin girls and a little boy all under 3.  I made the twins the Valentine Kitty Hat by Knot Your Nanas crochet and the little boy I made the Sly Fox Hat by Lisa Gutierrez on Good Knits.  They were all done in Caron Simply soft and I think they are very very cute!

Moroccan Stitch Afghan!

So after I finished the heart blanket, I was looking at the Moroccan stitch over on Moogly and totally fell in love with it.  I made a quick cowl using it and wanted to do more.  I'll be visiting Korea this year and wanted to make a cousin a blanket.  I've only met her once before so I wanted it to be more than just a plain stitch afghan with regular yarn.

I have been very stingy in using my pretty Turkish yarn, but I thought a blanket using it would be beautiful.  Though I did add an extra HDC row between each Moroccan stitch because I thought it might make the colors stand out a bit more and also I wasn't sure if I had enough of the variegated yarn to make the blanket as big as I wanted.  Turns out I shouldn't have worried, I still have 2-3 skeins left!

Heart Blanket

So far this year I've been very behind on my hat making.  I've finally got around to trying a few patterns that I've had on file.  I'll have to punch up my hat making once I finish all the projects I'm working on, but I don't think it'll be that much of a problem. If anything, my hats will be a bit simpler this year.

Here's my first project done this year; I love scraps heart blanket at Crochet World Magazine.
I have a bunch of Red heart supersaver yarn that I can't use for hats since I don't find it soft enough.  So I used a bunch of the different colors I had to make a pretty girly blanket.  I also washed it a couple times in conditioner to try and soften it up and it seemed to work pretty nicely.  Now I just need to find someone to give it to!

  

Hat 125

Happy New Year!  Hat 125 is the last of the batch that went out this past December!  I've already started on the new batch and though I have a couple projects I want to do this year, I'm hoping I won't cut it as close as I did this last year.
A while back I did the Crochet Fusion Blanket and had a few quilted/crocheted squares extra so put them into a hat.  I still have a few more lying around so I'll probably do a couple more similar to these until I use up all the squares.