A baby hat

My co-worker and his wife have welcomed a baby boy.  This new little one has the brownest eyes that I have ever seen.  They are more brown than milk chocolate but not as brown as dark chocolate.  I imagine if you swirled those 2 chocolates together, you may find just the right hue.

As soon as I knew he was here - I had an overwhelming urge to knit him something to say "Welcome to the world, little fellow."  I looked through several baby hat patterns and decided on the hooded bear hat.  I love this hat and I love the monotonous pattern.  The way the hood flips inside and out for the duration of hood knitting.

I sure hope the little guy likes his new hat!!!

A preemie hat

I love knitting!!!  As if I need to state that outloud.

Today I found a micro-preemie hat pattern on Ravelry's website.  Cast on 33 on tiny size 3 double pointed needles....

It is so small...

The writer of the pattern said to knit it with a prayer for the baby who would wear it and for the mommies and daddies too.  It was a precious blog posted pattern.  I can't wait to make more of these for my local NICU.

#knittingforothers #babyhats #size3knittingneedles

Fun new hat pattern

I found a fabulous knitting book at Cherry Valley library.  The book is titled "Last-Minute Knitted Gifts" by Joelle Hoverson.

Today I made two of her cute baby hats.  One is a shower gift and one is for the Crisis Pregnancy Center.

A knitting tale...

Once upon a time, there was a damsel who lived in a faraway land called Rockford, Illinois.  The fair damsel loved knitting.  She found great enjoyment in taking skeins of yarn and transforming them in to objects for her loved ones.

Around Christmastime, the damsel's friend requested two bear-eared hats for her beloved daughters.

Our knitting damsel searched high and low for the perfect yarn.  After weeks of searching, she procured peacock and orchids alpaca-blended fibers. 

The damsel chose the peacock yarn and began knitting single-strandedly....  Half an hour later it was determined that single stranded would not suffice.  The just begun project was pulled off the needles and re-started with two strand of yarn and a tall decaf mocha.

Several hours (HOURS) later, our fair damsel inspected her work only to find a mistake.  A skipped row or a duplicated row. 

Near tears, the damsel removed the yarn from her circular knitting needles and began unraveling the project.

Tonight we find the damsel contemplating - too pick up the needles or not too pick up the needles.  {Sigh.}

Since November 29th...

November 29^th was the last time that I blogged…that was 18 days ago.  While asking myself, “Where did the time go?” I realized that I know WHERE the time went…it went to me swimming in a sea of yarn and the clickety-clack of knitting needles whipping up hat after hat and lastly a penguin ornament or two…or three.  Well, technically, the third one has a bit of an ocular situation…as in, he’s missing eyes.  I forgot that before stitching him closed, you are supposed to add two safety eyes which snap in place.  Now my poor eye-less penguin will be forced to become something other than a blind penguin.  I’m hoping my Thursday night knitting peeps can help me fix him…lest I get creative and make him some sunglasses.  {Sigh.}  Thankfully Penguins 2 and 3 are not orders…they were more for fun. 

It's gnome-ish!!!

Made this for Jackson Gear

But I followed the pattern....

This hat is supposed to fit an upper elementary student.  It won't.  Infact I bet it's going to JUST fit a toddler. 

Starting over again and using ginormous needles!!!!

A skein of yarn and a couple hours

I think I may have a new knitting obsession:  hats!!!

It all started with a newborn cupcake hat....and then a brown hat with adorable bear ears...and now THIS....a fun vintage pattern for a sweet first grader.

Knitting for others is perhaps my favorite thing about knitting.

Finding the perfect yarn and then imagining the yarn becoming a THING and then presenting the knitted-with-love item and watching the recipient's reaction.