Mad Hatter

Here's some more creations! This time... hats!!! Winter hats, to be exact...

The first hat is a red hood I knitted up. It's made with Lionbrand's Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in Cranberry, so it was a really fast knit!

It's really warm and I absolutely love it! Plus it matches a new coat I just got :)

So without further ado...

The front view: please excuse my awful facial expression, I'm bad at pictures :-P


The side view: you can see more detail on the braided edge.


The back view: you can see the seam :)


And the second hat is a pink tam, which I love wearing, but it's not nearly as warm as the hood. This one is knit with Lionbrand Wool-Ease in Blush Heather, an absolutely beautiful color. I made the edge band a little small for the amount of hair I have, but it still works :)

The front view: can't really see much of the hat itself, but that's how it looks from the front.


A side view: you can see how it sits, slightly slouchy at the bottom, which I like a lot.


A different side view: gives a better idea of the back, plus the pompom actually shows up!


An actual back view: You can really see the segments on the hat, and the pompom!


And that's me being happy because I really like this hat :)


That's all for today, folks, but I'm in the process of knitting my boyfriend a 6-foot long scarf, which I'll be sure to post when it's finished!

Nice cup of tea

I'm back with another update of projects I made for a Craftster swap. The theme was tea time. I found some really cute tea time related charms at the crafts store and decided to make matching earrings and ribbon bookmarks.

The earrings were really simple, just a colored bead and then the charm. I ended up making five pairs:











I made the matching bookmarks from ribbon, and attached the charms and beads with wire. The ribbon I liked only came in the wired variety, so I had to pull those out before making the bookmark. I made four bookmarks (with a closeup of corresponding charm at end):

















I also made a recipe book full of recipes involving tea. On every page I put a picture of a different interesting-looking teapot that I found online. There were ones shaped like turkeys, frogs, Conestoga wagons, ladybugs, and tons of other interesting shapes.

I also made a small tea wallet. It's basically a wallet with pockets the right size for teabags and sugar packets. There was even an elastic in the centerfold to hold stirrers!



And here's what the inside looked like! The orange rectangles were actually Post-It notes with labels for what flavor of tea was in the pocket, since I sent it with teabags already in the wallet.

Shiny!!!!

All of these are items I made for a Craftster geisha swap in January 2007.

The purse looked much better than I expected, especially after I closed up the gaps for the straps a little bit (by hand). It's reversible, so I took pictures of both sides.

The red side:



The black side:


The fabrics were really beautiful; so much so that I had to take swatch pictures of them (these are without flash because that caused a weird glare).





And here's 3 pairs of kanzashi hair clips made to go with the purse:



I also made these earrings as one of the small items:



My favorite of all the things I made is definitely this barrette. I might even make one for myself in colors I wear more often.



Closeups of the flowers and the trails: