the blue blog archives: pixie dust

After seeing Tara's pixie hat on the baby bumpers blog, I wanted to make one for wee one on the way. I grabbed Erika Knight's Knitting for Two book at the store and found the most awesome yarn for the hat, Colinette's new "easy care" (read washable!), hand-dyed wool, Cadenza. This yarn is so cool! It's got really awesome colors.

I used a little Debbie Bliss Merino DK I had in red for the edging and the i-cords and Dani helped out by making a couple of her trademarked "kick-ass pompoms" for me ('cause I suck at making pompoms).

I had lots of extra yarn left over (seriously, a Colinette yarn with decent yardage, a good price and that's easy care - wow!), so I've got little thumbless baby mitts in the works!

posted by alison at 9:43 am | in funky hat mom

Comments

Love the hat! What yummy colors.

Posted by: Julie at November 22, 2006 10:41 AM

That's an adorable hat. Can't wait to see the mitts.

Posted by: rachel at November 22, 2006 10:53 AM

What a sweet hat, it must be so special to have all this knitting to do for a little person that is on the way. I don't have any children, but I have always sworn that if I ever do get pregnant I am going to spend as much of my pregnancy as possible making baby things.

Do you like the book knitting for two? I saw it at Borders a while ago and thought about picking it up, but didn't. It looked like a really nice book though.

Posted by: Maggie at November 22, 2006 11:17 AM

Aww! The hat is precious! Sweet colors! It'll really go with everything.

Too bad Little Miss BlueBlog isn't arriving NOW so that she can use all these things through the whole winter!

Posted by: Laura at November 22, 2006 12:35 PM

Oh my goodness, how cute! I love the shape and the pom poms. You're going to have one seriously well-dressed wee girly when she arrives!

Posted by: Kathy at November 22, 2006 12:47 PM

The hat is adorable, and that yarn -- THAT YARN! There are at least three colorways of it that I MUST HAVE! Darn you, you enabler, you!!! Okay, I'm off to buy some yarn!

Posted by: Mary at November 22, 2006 4:17 PM

.... oh my gosh that hat is sooooo adorable! And I'm not usually a fan of pompoms, but they are so perfect on that hat! I am very tempted to make one, but first I'd have to find the book (hellooo library!) and some good yarn for it. I can't wait to see the thumb-less mitts you make, I've got plenty of friends with babies on the way, so that's another good idea for those winter babies.

Posted by: eshy at November 22, 2006 4:27 PM

That is too cute for words. Absolutely adorable. How do you do the pom poms or how does Dani? They really make the hat. I can't wait to see the mitts. Great job!!!

Posted by: knitnut at November 22, 2006 5:03 PM

Oh. So. Cute.

It makes me think about baby number three already since that one might be a girl. :) Maybe I should finish up baby number two first...

Posted by: Brynne at November 22, 2006 6:25 PM

Too, too, too cute!

Posted by: Barb in Sudbury at November 22, 2006 7:28 PM

What a cute pixie hat! Thanks for mentioning me in your blog. It's my blog debut!

Posted by: Tara at November 22, 2006 8:36 PM

That's a very cute hat.

In fact, I want one just like it for myself!

Posted by: Arsie at November 25, 2006 3:18 PM

I am so happy to hear you suck at PomPoms! I do too! So I'm not the only one.... Love the hat! I've squished the Cadenza at my LYS and it is so soft and gorgeous...but of course it's Colinette, how could it not be gorgeous? I gotta get some soon!

Posted by: Knitting Bandit at November 26, 2006 9:25 PM

So, so, so cute.

Posted by: colleen at November 27, 2006 11:39 AM

Adorable!

Posted by: Kat with a K at November 28, 2006 4:39 PM