Showing posts with label cross stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cross stitch. Show all posts

Friday, January 22, 2010

New baby girl!

My cousin had her baby, and she had a lovely little baby girl - 7lbs 11oz. No name yet that I know of. I had made a roll brim hat in a lovely dove grey/silver bamboo yarn but that seems a bit bland for a little girl. Maybe I will embellish it with something pink and girly first before I send it.

I have never experienced this before, but I have come across a ball of yarn who's will was stronger than mine. I bought some lovely Debbie Bliss Prima yarn in a really nice aubergine colour and thought I would make a slouchy lace beret with it. I like making hats, and I'm normally quite quick at it. But this time.....hmmmm.....I managed to cast on the wrong number of stitches (even though I counted); I made an error with the ribbing for the brim - three times I frogged it and started again!?!?!. Then I was part way into the lace pattern and completely forgot where I was and miscalculated and messed up the pattern (have never done that before!). Then even though I checked my gauge when I got far enough along to try it on, the hat was too tight on my head. I have never had this happen before! I think that this yarn definitely did NOT want to be a beret. Perhaps I will just have to wait using it until it tells me what it wants to be!!

Here's a couple of pictures of other projects I designed and made this week. Mind that the second one is a bit rude.



 

I'm due for an eye test soon and a friend in my optician.
I might give this to her - she has a good sense of humor.

Still mostly brainstorming on ideas for things I'd like to make in the next little while. Sometimes it seems like I come up with so many ideas all at once, and then sometimes I don't really feel inspired to come up with anything new. I'm on an idea high at the moment, so I'm going with it!

I am terribly sad that I didn't win the Gisele and Birdie draw for a new blog design, but congratulations to Sue at http://asecondheart.blogspot.com/ who did!