baby owl hat

this may just be my favorite baby owl hat yet! this was for an old hs friend's baby, made from all cotton yarn, and super soft. it's also the smallest i've made yet, to fit 0-3 months (though i hope it'll stretch a little more...). love the sleepy owl look!

mitts

i made these for a friend to pass on as a gift. i love the idea of the fingerless glove, or mitt! i porbbaly won't be able to make this exact pattern again (i don't always record my "patterns" very well, but i think the idea is a definate keeper! warm and soft, and perfect for driving a car with a cold steering wheel, texting/phoning in winter, pushing a stroller into the wind, and dozens of other situations...

sea turtle

this was one of the most fun spur-of-the-moment things i've ever crocheted! i was making a little baby hat (see it soon, i'll post pics in the next day or two) for an old high school friend of mine, and i remembered her 3-yr old loves sea turtles. my friend had just shown pics of the big girl room on fb, redone as she did the nursery for the baby--all in sea turtles, super-cute! and i pulled together some scraps and put this together.

top view, shows off his fancy colors

and a tummy view, the shell is actually completely removable, which inspired my friend's daughter to giggle about her "naked" turtle :) fun times!

despicable me minion

if you've seen Despicable Me, i'm sure you remember these little minions :) after all, what's not to love?!

i made this little guy for my sisters birthday. he's one of the few patterns i've taken directly from another designer, though i did change the boots a little. check out the original here.

mom's Christmas scarf

so i wanted to make something a little soft and special for my mom for christmas, and this was what i came up with:

 i love the yarn, it's a bamboo-cotton blend, so it's super-soft and natural.

this was one pattern i followed more closely than most, though i changed

the hook size to fit my hand and yarn. the pattern's from: here

monkey pirate!

do i even need any sort of caption here? the monkey pirate hat has to be one of my favorites yet!

pink frog

so if i was a little skeptical about a blue puppy dog, you can only imagine what i was thinking when my hubby wanted me to make a pink frog for his neice for Christmas. and i must admit, if i liked the blue puppy, i LOVE the pink frog... way to think outside the box hubby!

nothing like big bulbous eyes to make a frog look great!

and lots of green spots, cause a frog looks better with spots!

and my personal favorite touch, a classic little black fly at the end of her tounge!

ribbit!

puppy dog hat

so when my husband told me he wanted a blue and white puppy dog hat for his nephew for Christmas, i must admit i was a little skeptical, but i LOVE how it turned out!

 i had some fluffy white yarn on hand from a long time ago, and it even had blue flecks in it, so i thought it would make a nice base color, and i couldn't be more pleased with how it looks! i was able to match the blue pretty much exactly, so the mis-matched ears and the spot by the eye worked great.

after that, all he needed was a little pink tounge!

golden snitch

a simple little golden snitch for a couple of my favorite harry potter fans out there. the wings look speckly, but that's because i couldn't figure out how to get the sparkles (metallic gold thread) to show up in the picture.

(now i've got a new camera, so it might be better, but i've already given the snitches away)

pattern from here

red queen anne scarf

i've seen similar patterns to this one called queen anne lace, so i'm calling it that too, though it may not be an official name. this soft cotton yarn was really nice to work with, and the lacy, girly effect was fun too--



this is to show off the detail.

this pattern is slightly modified from here 

though the original is in German 

(hence the potential for modification ;)

wendy hat

in honor of my awesome sister-in-law, wendy (who loves purple and all things french), i made this purple woolen beret. i also made one exactly the same, but cotton (same color though) for a friend of mine that liked this one so much but lives in a warmer climate :)

girl shark

the last shark-hat i made was clearly for a boy... this one had to be dolled up with a double bow and 'killer' eyelashes, and made of soft alpaca wool. 

(ps my model's only 5, but the hat was for a 10 yr old girl, so it looks a little big in the picture)

baby galoshes

this is currently my favorite baby bootie...

seriously folks, they're adorable!

i think next time i might make them a little taller before i add the handles

Christmas Owls

we LOVED these hats (hopefully my adorable nieces do too!) even my baby was playing with them--and he doesn't like hats!



these cute little owls have mittens to match, cause it's always fun to accessorize! note too, i did add eyelashes to the bigger owl, and i also added the matching purple string to the sleepy baby mittens after the picture was taken

 

close-up of the larger hat, I LOVE this orange chenille yarn, this particular color was left over from a previous hat, but i look forward to getting more of the super-soft yarn for future projects!

 

and a close-up of the sleepy baby owl, it was looking a little plain, so R (my 3-yr-old) said i should add a bow:


 

great idea R!



christmas begins with mittens

so i've had tons of things i've been wanting to post, but i've been putting them off til after Christmas so as not to ruin any surprises... clearly these would have been the favorite of anything i could have made... or maybe not, but either way, my favorite brother got some nice manly wollen mittens for Christmas... welcome to Chicago little brother! i hope they're warm enough, i know the wind is a biter there, so they may not be quite enough, but i thought they would be a better fit than anything you can find on the shelves (my brother has skinny man hands). and there will be a bunch more Christmas gifts up on this blog soon, ideas for the winter season or even for next year!