Happy Mondays......

I love Mondays.....especially when I have a big pile of hats ready for postage to different corners of the globe.

And Monday nights are always catch up with friends night, always a meal and a movie.  That's why Mondays are always happy Mondays.

New Things.....

Hat designs come to me often, but not all of them work out, some of them go back to the drawing board, some of them are just too darn hard.

Meet little Theodore, a new member of the dover & madden family.  This little hat came about as a mix of a couple of others that I had previously worked on and put down.  Anyway, Teddie has a bit of a retro vibe, I think I wore something similar myself in the early 1970's as a bub....again taking inspiration from my own baby photos sometimes works.

I'm just mucking around with the sizes, I'm trying to do a larger size, but sometimes you just lose the cuteness once they start getting into bigger sizes, but I'll give it my best shot.  I'm using new season Baby Cashmerino colours for the prototypes.....bright yellow, bright emerald green, and I may even go a sunshine orange.  We'll see. 

These little hats should start filtering into my Etsy store in the next month.  The pattern will follow later on in the year.

Can you see your little one wearing Teddie?

 

Till later,

 

Another Week, Another Blanket......

The weeks going past seem to always involve a blanket of some sort, and this week was no different.  A commission from a friend.....She loved the colours in this blanket, but was happy to leave the style of crochet to me.....so whilst on the hexie wave, I continued with the ride.

All wool, and straight edges once again, using my border that I love, love, love and ta-dah.  One very special blanket for a little fellow arriving in the next couple of weeks.  The only difference with this border was to continue with the silver grey right through it with just the little highlights of colour peeping out.  So as usual here are some photos below, and you'll find my blanket here on Ravelry......and whilst I'm talking about Ravelry, thank you to all those who purchased the little Clover pattern that's now for sale....and I have noticed little completed hats already popping up on the page, great to see.

And before you ask......yes I have another baby blanket to complete for next week!!

Good Things Come To Those That Wait.......

It's ready.....Clover so you can knit your own at home.



 

Available from Etsy or Ravelry



Thanks

Busy, Busy, Busy.....

Just about there, the pattern is nearly finalised.....a couple of hats back from my test knitters and they're perfect, so hopefully that means the pattern is perfect.

I'm doing some more knits myself, just checking off every size....although I know this pattern back to front and inside out.....but I still love seeing all the little sizes stacked up.  These ones are heading of to the US to the fabulous photographer, Joy Wright.....I want some more scrumptious babies in Clovers to front my patterns.

I'm finishing off some blankets, taking first orders for the northern Winter and starting to size my second pattern.

Things are certainly busy, busy, busy.

Colour Block Hexie.....

Finally a few extra colours that I ordered for my colour block hexie blanket have turned up.....I didn't feel like I could continue until all colours where here and accounted for.

I ended up removing a few colours on the first row that I did, I ended up removing a lime green which was organic wool....it looked too lime green really!!  I also took out a plum colour as well.....my aim was for crisp clear colour, with a few softer colours like grey and latte brown to break up the brightness.

A few people on my Facebook page have asked me what colours I'm using and where I source my Cascade 220 from.  Below is the colour list....the organic wool I'm using is hard to find, so I'm giving you similar colours in Cascade 220 for those....I purchased one ball of each, and this blanket is 18 hexies across using a 3.5 hook.....I'm making this large bed size or back of the sofa snuggling size.

9487 Puget Sound, 8903 Primaverra, 9469 Hot Pink, 7809 Violet, 7804 Shrimp, 7816 Bluebell, 8888 Lavender, 7828 Neon Yellow, 9427 Duck Egg Blue, 8393 Navy, 8414 Bright Red, 8011 Aspen Heather, 9478 Cotton Candy, 7814 Chartreusse, 9603 Country Blue.

The substitute yarns for the organic wool I'm using, I'd probably go with 9477 Tutu, 7825 Orange Sherbert, 7815 Summer Sky, 7822 Vandyke Brown and 7821 Sienna.

I buy my Cascade 220 from the US, the colour range is better than the very limited stock I find here in Australia, and my online, or walk in store of choice is  The Loopy Ewe in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Their online service is second to none, they instantly join you up to their loyalty program, and I can't resist the small bag of Tootsie Rolls that seem to accompany my order every time I receive it!

Anyway this isn't going to be a quick project, I have plenty more to be going on with, but it's a personal project.....another something for me.

A Week Away.....

Little Clover is a week away.  All writing and photography work on my first knitting pattern is now completed.  I have some knitters testing the pattern, I'm just doing some final testing myself and someone else is looking at spelling, grammar and punctuation and that is it I think.

The release date will be Sunday 1st September and for now I'll be selling the pattern from my Ravelry store.  I'm still undecided about Etsy, I'll have a think about that during this week.   I'll update this page next week with the details, but for now I'll leave you with this stunning image from photographer Katherine Heise-Vouros from Lamb loves Fox.  It's her beautiful daughter in her Clover hat. Katherine is also a very talented crocheter.  To see some of her crochet work, stop by at Crochetlatte blog.

See you back here next week,