I did it! Not to spec, either. It’s a good pattern, bu the way I followed it, there would have been enough hat to fit over her entire face. I just went with the decreases until there was just no way I could make the hat longer and pulled the remaining stitches into a tight circle.
I have been busy working on baby clothes. There are 4 pregnant people in our family and a few who are trying. Figured I would get some things done in the process of the wait for the baby boom.
Here is Minty GRRL the sweater:
and the hat:
(modeled by birthday fun care bear)
Currently working on Purple n Lace set. The sweater has been a challenge since the lace patterns I picked for the bottom were not adding up *sigh*. Going along well now, though.
This is a random girl’s sweater I made it goes with the hat I will post next. Finished it on the 21st of June. It has crochet 2 chain edging.
Colorwork is interesting on this piece. The colors don’t seem to make sense. I guess it’s going to be like a Monet. I am working on the top left corner right now. Here are the latest pictures of the progress I am making:
I put it in a smaller hoop since I am only working on a very small area. I am hoping that my multi thread strategy works out, since there are so many sporadic color changes. I can’t see myself continually cutting strings and tucking them every few seconds.
I made a nice little pillow cover with a zipper the other day. Took me a bit to get used to my cute sewing machine again… I missed it! So, this being my first zipper experience…and my first experience figuring out the finishing and whatnot…I am hapy to say that the pillow came out pretty well.
What do you think?
FORGOT to add the finished project for the sampler:
What do you think?
Finally finished all the bottom half words. Next the middle words, then I have to work on the color arrangement. The problem is that I wrote to plaidonline and they never answered me about a color chart, as the scheme has so many colors that are similar to each other. I would hate to stitch it all and find out that I was wrong by the end.
I just watched an episode of Spotted Canary in which they transform an ugly ordinary clock to a whimsical masterpiece in just a few minutes. I am totally thinking about going to the thrift shop and checking to see if they have any old clocks that I can transform for our kitchen. WOOT!
I FINALLY FOUND MY STASH OF NEEDLES!!!!!!!
So thankful to God that I went out there into the garage and found them. They were stashed in a box to the back of our storage stuff. I was praying I would find them and therefore set my mind at ease again. I hate not having all the tools I need at my disposal when it comes to projects. I hate knowing that I Have more things than are in my hand, but not being able to find them. Now, I just have to relocate my knitting gauge/needle gauge thingy and I will be good to go.
I have finished my guitar strap cover that I began last week. I had plenty of time to do it on the recent trip to Syracuse. It came out pretty nice, but I want to add something to the back end of it eventually. I used 2 yarns that I had laying around. A semi gloss black normal strand yarn and a red chunky funky yarn. Makes for an extremely comfortable strap cover. I just knit the length, sewed it up the middle, slid it over the existing belt with my crochet needle to help… and voila, guitar strap 
