I’ve been seeing these hats with the fur pom poms and I wanted to make myself one. I also wanted texture. So I looked around for free patterns and didn’t find anything I liked, then went to Etsy and found a really cute pattern and bought it.
I started making my hat the week between Christmas and New Year. I was up New Year’s Eve until midnight trying to finish it. I got so close, I just needed maybe 3 or 4 more rows, but I ran out of yarn.
I started this Four-Hour Sweater in the fall. I have always wanted to make clothes. So far the closest I’ve come is a poncho that I made about 15 years ago. I was also looking to make an over sized sweater to go with my leg warmers that I made a while ago. I thought they’d be cute with a pair of jeggins.
Well, I haven’t finished the sweater yet. I did buy a sweater on Amazon to wear with my jeggins and leg warmers, so I didn’t feel as rushed to complete this. Also, new projects popped up and interrupted the completion of this project, so it is now in the WIP pile and may never get completed. In fact, if I do want to complete it, I may need to frog it and start over from scratch. And that kind of sucks.
So far here are my observations:
I really want to start doing clothes and this looked like a quick and easy pattern to learn on, but perhaps I should switch to her other pattern, Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Pullover. This might be a bit easier to learn with. So I’ll add that to my to-do list, but I have a while till I could probably get to it.
My claw grip and the over-sized Q hook
I’m falling behind on my posts. I blame my husband. For Christmas this year he bought me the Lego Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters. I’ve been working on it since last week, and I’m still not done! But I love it. I love Legos and this is probably the largest set I’ve ever gotten.
But that’s not all I got for Christmas. I also got lots of Crochet related things, most of which were on my Amazon wish list.
My resolution last year, in a way, was to start a crochet blog. It wasn’t really a resolution, but it was something I had wanted to do for a while. I finally went through with making it a reality, and I still have a backlog of post ideas to keep me going outside of any current projects I’m working on.
So it’s time to come up with a crochet related resolution for 2018. Next year I will complete my big project that I have been planning in my head for about a year now, possibly longer. The project is a big one, and I know it will probably take me 3 months or so to complete, but I want to make this a reality. This will be a project that I will design and make myself. Once I’m done I hope to have my first real pattern available for distribution.
I’m not spilling the beans on what my project is yet. I’ve purchased all the yarn and I have sketches and rough designs ready to start it. All I have to do is finish this one hat I am working on for myself, and then I will start it. No more excuses.
After I made a scarf for one of my co-workers for Christmas, I felt a little guilty that I didn’t make a scarf for one of my other co-workers, so I decided to work one up real quick. I found this free pattern for the Crickets Infinity Scarf by Crochet Cricket.
I finished making my baby hats for Little Hats Big Hearts.
But first, my husband got me this photography tent for Christmas. This was my first time playing with it. Still working on setting up the lighting. But, this is the first time using it and showing off my pictures with it. OK, my photography skills need some work, I admit it.
All seven hats completed
Last year I made these cute little shark blankets for my nephews (one and seven). These blankets are kind of like those mermaid tail blankets for girls, but they are sharks, so they even cooler than mermaid tails. For the yarn I used Plymouth Select Worsted Merino Superwash, colorway Charcoal (67), that I picked up at Kid Ewe Knot.
Last week I was wrapping gifts for my co-workers and I realized that I was missing a gift for one of them. I had a half day on Friday, so I decided to quickly make a scarf for her. I went searching on Pinterest and came across this Noro Windowpane Scarf pattern by Adrienne Lash. I was looking for something lacy, but what I liked about this pattern were the open “windows” through the scarf. Not exactly lacy, but had that openness I was looking for to show off the fluffiness of the angora yarn. I still had plenty of Ice Yarn, that I had used for one of the skull scarves.
The completed Noro Windowpane Scarf hanging off of my awesome bear head. Unfortunately, the lighting is a little dark. I have to wrap this tonight, so no time to wait for natural light.
My co-worker was expecting earlier this year. So I decided to make her a baby blanket. I didn’t want to make my typical baby blanket that I normally make. I found Zig Zag Puff Stitch Baby Blanket pattern on Pinterest. I decided to use my Maxima yarn by Manos del Uruguay that I bought during Yarnapolooza.
My friend Connie and I share the same birthday. So last year we decided to take the day off and go on a whirlwind tour of the Pittsburgh area yarn shops. We called it Yarnapolooza. I did a search of the area for yarn shops and came up with seven shops in and around the city to visit. So we took the day off of work and went on our yarn shop tour. This was the first time we visited most of these shops, so it was an exploration mission as well as a shopping extravaganza.
FYI. I would love to own a yarn shop. It’s like my dream job or at least a happy little fantasy in my head. So I love to visit yarn shops.
Little Bit of Foolishness 
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