Another Beat Hat!

Bear hats are SOO cute and I love to make them!  They are the easy project I can make in one evening!

Here is the newest polar bear hat I made for my bestie's youngest baby.  

Maybe she'll send me a picture of him wearing so I can share it with you all!!!

My First Attempt at Knitting Socks

I love reading other people's blogs because I get great ideas from them!  Recently I saw the awesome Peppermint Twist socks that Knit Purl Gurl made and I fell in love!  I have never made socks before but I really wanted to try them now!! 

I used Peppermint Twist sock yarn from Spinning Fates and this awesome sock pattern from Ravelry.  I also used the videos from Lion Brand  to help with all the complicated turning of the heal and gussets (never knew my socks had gussets before!)  

I took advantage of the kids and hubby being out of town and got these done in a week.  I'm not sure how often I'll make socks but it was fun to do!

And here are more pictures from the process of making them!!

double pointed needles look crazy!

looks more like a ancient foot trap!

look how nicely the stripes line up!

Spreading some Geekyness for Christmas -- Crocheted Yoda

One of my nieces made a request for a crocheted Yoda for Christmas.

I think he turned out SUPER cute!!!!

I used Lucyravenscar's pattern from Etsy and it was super easy to follow.  She has lots of other cute patterns so I would check her out!!!

I was able to make him in one evening! My husband thought he needed a lightsaber and I just kept forgetting to add it! Maybe I'll get it to him later ;)

I loved that I could make something geeky for Christmas and to see the smile on my niece's face was just priceless!

Nanny Granny

Finally I made a granny square blanket for my mother-in-law, aka Nanny

(The colors are actually grey and a bright teal blue but with my instagram pics they come out looking different!)

I love how simple this one is and yet it still looks awesome!

I made 4 giant granny squares and just joined them together.

For all of the blankets I made I used my favorite yarn from Hobby Lobby - I Love This Yarn!  The yarn is super soft and comes in amazing colors! It really makes finding great color combinations easy.  

And here are some of the pics from the crocheting process:

Lucy's Granny Square Blanket

 

The blanket I made for my sister-in-law Lucy gave me a new challenge - reading a pattern from just a chart.  Plus this chart was written in Japanese!  Ya, it was hard but I love great challenges!

Here is the pattern from Ravelry if you are interested!

This turned into a rather large blanket of 143 squares, but it's perfect for my SIL and niece snuggle under!

Here are some of the grannies before they were edged and sewn together

And the border up close