Color-Pooled Scarf Hi Friends! I have completed another project that has been in my bag for a while now. It is a scarf, warm and pretty! Here it is while still under construction: The next picture is the center, which is the first part I did. This is the part with “Planned Color Pooling”,
Category: Material: Acrylic
Doll Hat
Doll Hat Nothing fancy, just a little something I threw together for my friend-nephew, for his new doll. Acrylic yarn. Should have made the circumference a tad bigger (it’s a bit snug) but otherwise, it’s just knitting and decreasing. Plus a pompom.
Cuddly Yellow Blanket
Buttery Snuggle Blanket This is a blanket I started out just because I had a pretty yarn! It was soft, and I loved the yellow with little tufts of other colors. I only got 2 skeins, though, because it was in the clearance bin and that’s all there were. I probably could have started
Pure, Unadulterated Nerdy Cuteness
Ok, so I’m completely geeky, but I got super excited when a friend gave me a hat that may or may not look similar to a character in a well known film… Garment Data:– Type: Baby hat, mittens, booties– Date made: Unknown, plus January and February 2017– Pattern: Made up– Fabric/Materials: Acrylic yarn– Trim: the
Rose Baby Hat
Dear friends, So, it seems I know many babies. A friend asked me to design and make a hat that looked like a rose, for an infant friend of hers. It came out looking more like a species rose (which has flat petals around a middle) more than a double rose (the kind you’re used
Rose Baby Blanket
Hi Friends! Did I warn you I’d be knitting like a fiend, or did I warn you?? 🙂This blanket has been most of what I’ve been working on for the last 10 days or so… and I loved it! Garment Data:– Type: Baby blanket for a crib– Date made: December 2016– Pattern: My own, invented
Leafy Baby Hat
Dear Friends, I recently had the opportunity to give to a family in need, and one of the things they needed were clothes for a newborn, who they are currently expecting. I can’t give baby clothes without at least something handmade! So I pulled out my go-to pattern book for super-cute baby knits, and here
Winter Hats, Part III: Mathematical Shapes (Mobius and Klein bottle)
Part III of winter hats is here! And this time it’s math-based. Remember Part I? It featured a blue hat? Well, I had yarn left over, in prodigious amounts. So I decided to make something for myself. I had seen a Mobius scarf, which I had really liked the idea of. As you’ll see, mine
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Winter Hats, part II — Jayne’s Hat
Ladies and Gents,As promised, part II of the Wooly-Hats Spectacular Spectacular!I’m trying the pictures in a larger size, let’s see how this looks!In this case, I made a Jayne-inspired hat, copying a hat that the character Jayne Cobb got from his mom on the TV sci-fi/western Firefly.The cool thing about his hat is that it
Winter Hats
Dear friends!By request, I’m posting pictures from a few years ago that I hadn’t gotten around to posting yet. These are hats I made for friends and (when I get around to posting them) myself. They’re quite warm! I tested them 🙂 Garment Data:– Type: Winter Hat– Date made: Some time during the years 2003-2008–