Sweet Treats

Two new designs, just in time for the season...
I bought the cutest little crocheted hearts on Etsy (since I can't crochet, what DO you do with just one needle/hook anyway) but I am so grateful that there are sellers who do crochet and sell their appliques.

ruffle brim beanie with four valentine hearts

ruffle brim beanie with knit flower and valentine heart center

Both hats are available in size SMALL (3-6 mo) and for immediate shipping.  I can make more when I order more hearts.

Treasurypalooza!

Somehow I managed to snag another treasury in the early morning! But I seem to be stuck in 80's song themes...

And an hour later I got another one!

Pinkalicious Treasury West

I got another treasury in treasury west. I just happened to meander over and there it was, the magical number of 222, so up popped the pretty wondow to type in your treasury title. So of course I had to come up with one right away, and I misspelled it, but I corrected it in my image capture here. Don't 'cha just love pink?

These are EtsyBaby pink items, next treasury I will have to do a Etsy NaturalKids treasury. It's best to go back and forth I think when you belong to multiple teams. But these items sure are bright and cheerful during what promises to be a rainy week!

Think Pink! And Bunnies!

It seems that as soon as I packed up my tree and took down the lights, pink sprouted everywhere. Seriously, I couldn't even catch my breath from Christmas when Valentine's was being hailed from every corner.

But that's ok, because babies look seriously cute in pink. And then I took a good look at my shop and realized that I have a lot of pink in it. But what sells even better are the rabbit hats, the white and the Peter Rabbit ones.

There are rabbit hat patterns available all over the net and in books, it can be fun seeing the different styles that are out there.

But in keeping with the season, if I have to pick a favorite out of my shop, I would say this is one of them:

My Raspberry hat. Sweet, pretty, but no hearts, so no seasonal overkill. Perfect.

Just Desserts

It's the holiday season and I now have three hats in my desserts series; a Neapolitan, a cupcake, and now a Christmas pudding hat. I sold the pudding hat right after I made it, but here is the picture of it.

I am having trouble with the holly leaves, and am trying to find a good pattern, the rest of the Christmas Pudding hat I just made up on my own, I can post the pattern here if anyone wants it. I used my regular fruit hat leaves in the picture, but I will change it once I can make good holly leaves. I usually like my leaves to be double sided, but I may have to compromise in this case. But I have a whole year to perfect my pattern.

The ever-popular cupcake hat pattern is a combo of the pattern from Susan Anderson's new book, Itty Bitty Nursery and from this website: http://www.nakedsheep.com/cupcakehat.html.

As always, number of stitches are a suggestion, check your gauge, and I like to think of all patterns as suggestion, not a demand. I love her patterns for inspiration, but I do like to may my own changes and adjustments. The nubbles took some working out, but then they became rather fun to make.

The Neapolitan Ice Cream hat is the easiest, just three simple colors and a cherry knot top. I gave this one to my collegue who photographed her daughter wearing it and she gets plenty af awww's in it. So I know it is a keeper of a pattern. The trick is to get the right number of rows for the red for the cherry. And this will vary from yarn to yarn.

It is is a nice, quick, and easy novelty hat to make. But now I have to make three baskets of baby goodies for three pregnant cousins, and then it will be bunny hat season. But right now my Etsy store is a pink explosion for Valentine's day. I never knew I made so many hats with that much pink. It's almost scarry.

Maybe I should invest in some anti-pink patterns, a black apple hat perhaps?