(I regret that I didn't take these all facing the same way! Oops. Oh well.)

It's another one of those baby seasons! They come in swells, don't they? Three of my friends recently had baby girls. Two of them are far far away, so I had to wait for them to get their packages before sharing them here, otherwise I would have spoiled the surprise! The pattern I used was the alfalfa baby hat , and the wool was CEY Liberty Wool in the colorways sugar spun, and wild paisley (the middle hat being a combination of the two.) I had never worked with a self-striping yarn before, and I grabbed them on a whim at the local yarn shop; they were irresistibly scrumptious looking on the display! I wanted to try something new, and baby hats seemed like a good project to try something colorful. It's very fun to see the color of the yarn changing as you knit!

Other Ravelers noted that the hat ran much smaller than the pattern said, and I found that to be absolutely true, but it worked well for my purposes (since these were for very wee ones.) All in all it was an easy and fun pattern, and while I had to unknit several sections on the first hat because of some distracted knitting, by the third hat I just whipped right through it. 

Congratulations again, Meg, Sarah and Jeannie!

I've been knitting sporadically for probably close to a year now, and if you can believe it, this is the first time I made something for myself! Knitting for babies is just way too much fun. Recently I've been knitting up a storm, but I can't share a darn thing yet (Christmas gifts!) So when those were all finally done I finally settled on something for myself. The pattern is is the Keep It Simple Hat by April  Klich. I Raveled it, but y'all better stay out of my Ravelry til after Christmas, ya nosy beasts! All four colors are Stonehedge Fiber Mill's Sheperd's Wool, in Beaches, Lakeshore, Mint, and Antique Rose. I love this wool! Super soft merino, not superwash but I enjoy hand-washing knits, so. 

This was my first try at stranded colorwork, and dangerously so, because I'm hooked! My floats were just a teensy bit tight so there is a little puckering, but not bad for a first time, I daresay. I modified the pattern in a few ways: I knit the brim in the round instead of flat, I only did three repeats of the color chart, and I sped up the decreases at the top by eliminating the "knit all stitches" rounds. I took a bunch of pictures trying to get a good shot of the hat on my head, these were the best I could do! Anyways, thank the Lord I have some knit things I can share here again. Everything else will appear after Christmas!