the blue blog archives: graceful crochet

My knitbuddy and neighbor, Shannon is doing a little volunteer knitting for the charity organization Graceful Stitches. She received her kit, knitted the fun kids poncho, and then turned the pattern page to find crochet instructions for the matching hat. Knowing that I pretend to know how to crochet, she brought the pattern and remaining yarn over to me.

This little poofy beret hat is so adorable. The openwork is very pretty, especially in this duo-tone yarn. Unfortunately, I didn't have a picture of what the pattern was supposed to look like while I was working on it and so as the hat got bigger and bigger, I started to get worried. But I checked all my stitches and my numbers, so I knew I was following directions correctly. Finally came the last two decrease rounds and the thing went from being much too big for me to not even fitting on my head anymore. Voila!

posted by alison at 12:30 pm | in baby things

Comments

Wow! That is so cute, and such lovely yarn they sent!

Posted by: jo at January 8, 2005 5:00 PM

Very cute! And I have the same question about eyelashes. A guy from work stopped by the other day with a baby gift and no word of a lie, his 18-month old son's eyelashes are 3/4 of an inch long.

Posted by: peggy at January 8, 2005 5:25 PM

That is Adorable...

On the eyelash thing - depressing, but...
My friend's doctor told her that babies having long eyelashes is one of the warning signs for childhood alleriges.

Posted by: melissa at January 8, 2005 6:03 PM

That hat is SO CUTE! (which kid did you put it on?!)

Posted by: Julia at January 8, 2005 6:52 PM

You are so right about the eyelashes DS has dark long ones and DD has thin pale ones. I can already hear her when she turn into a teenager, "Why did HE get the great lashes?"

And that hat is just too cute, makes me wish I knew how to crochet.

Posted by: Jennifer at January 8, 2005 8:39 PM

Question about the sockapalooza:
Is this supposed to be completely secret, or can we show on our blogs what we're working on? And can we send the socks as soon as they're done, or do we wait until March 15?

Posted by: Helene at January 8, 2005 9:20 PM

My aunt says boys get the long lashes because girls can wear mascara. I have clear eyelashes (seriously- see-through) and both of my brothers have thick, dark brown ones. Mascara or not, I find it a little annoying!

Posted by: Mary-Heather at January 8, 2005 10:01 PM

Love this! So cute. What sweet eyelashes too. :)

Posted by: Liz at January 10, 2005 8:19 PM