Hats!

Boy I have fallen in love with making hats. This week was a bumper crop of hats. I even started a new bulky yarn beret on Saturday and cranked it out by the end of the day. I can't stop wearing it around the house. Pictures to come soon. Until then enjoy the hats I finished last week. Not a new hat but a new photo. I finally got a snap of Amelia in her Bulls Eye hat from Kristen Knits. I also did the fingerless gloves but left off the flowers I think it was a bit much. Also of note: N8 did some photoshop magic and got rid of her red eyes. He is a whiz at photoshop.

Here is Alex modeling my brothers Watermelon hat from this summer. I made this up using a roll brim hat pattern. Those seeds are intarsia and a pain in the butt.

Here is mike wearing his birthday hat. An awesome candy corn! He got it early because he is a big baby. Also much cuter is Luke rocking the hat.

Finally we have Alex's Chullo in Eagles colors. This pattern is from Andean Folk Knits. A nice book but not as popular as the folk mittens book she did. You can always count on Amelia for a goofy ass face.

I'm crafty

This halloween I was charged with the most important of all duties. To create a purple fairy princess costume. No sexy fairies here commanded the bossy mother so here she is. Heavy on the eye makeup and sparkles! The skirt is made from over 8 yards of purple tulle. the overskirt is made from three layers of (very hard to sew) sparkle fabric. The top is a leotard with lace, ribbon, flowers and of course sequins glued to it. We also made a matching hair bow and decorated the ballet slippers. Wings were supplied by Aunt Kathy from the Ren. Faire. We swapped out the ties for something more purple.

Princess J. demanded makeup. She wanted a lot of eye makeup and then looked at us and said is it enough? Her mother said oh yeah I think it is. Me-mom called us the pagent moms for putting makeup on a three year old.

Oh peep the mittens! First pair ever!