C'mon, everyone else is doing it!

So I succumbed to pressure. I have joined the ranks of blogging. I suppose it will be nice during the dreary winter months here in Boston to write the hours away, but I am a knitter who is woefully backlogged on orders. I sell hand knit baby hats on butterflydesign.etsy.com and my holiday rush began somewhere around Halloween and it has not stopped.


But when talking with a friend who works at a candy and ice cream shop, I decided to try my hand at dessert hats, a Neapolitan Ice Cream , a Cupcake, and a Christmas Pudding. I finished and posted the Neapolitan.

I can't make any more new hats until I finish my backorders though, they haunt me!

But I really want to make the others, sigh. So much knitting, so little time!

Tonight I'm off to make a custom order of a lily of the vally hat with lavender petals all around the stem. It's a take-off of the daisy hat found in Itty-Bitty hats by Susan B. Anderson.

I love this book, such great ideas in this gem. And she has a new one out, Itty Bitty Nursery, which has a version of the cupcake hat, but I think I might alter it a bit, but I like her measurements.

I am so bummed that I missed her recent signing at Black Sheep Knitting in Needham, MA. It is all over her blog what a wonderful time she had, and I would have loved to meet her. Check out her books, she's got a ton of talent!