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I’m full…

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…of cupcakes.  Well, to be more precise I’m full of cupcake hats.

Using leftover yarn from other projects, I finished these last week but only got them photographed yesterday.

The hat with the light buttercream icing is for a 5-year old.  The one with the rich, chocolate icing is for her 16-year old sister.  I’m not sure if the 16-year old really wanted the hat or if the mother wanted her to have the hat.

Cupcake hat pattern: Chili Con Yarne

Cherry pattern: Cherries are the Bomb

I cast on 8 more stitches for the larger hat, knit the ribbing another inch and started the decreases when the hat was 9-inches from the cast on edge.

I used a different method for the bobbles than the original pattern calls for and I don’t remember where I got the instructions.  The bobbles are 5-stitch bobbles, which means that each bobble has 25 stitches in it resulting in one row with 560 stitches.

I’m not a fan of bobbles.

The buttercream icing hat has a total of 4,363 stitches including the cherry.  The chocolate hat has 6,112 stitches including the cherry.

Office mitts

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The fingerless mitts I made for the office staff are finished and gifted.  The pattern was developed from a combination of a few glove, mitten, and fingerless mitt patterns I found so it’s more or less original.

The tan and olive green striped ones turned out better than I imagined.  I like how the stripes go from dark to light with the navy first then the dark heather green and finally to the olive.  Subtle but noticeable.

I think they all coordinate well with the hats I gifted last year.

Office hats

Gift idea for mother-to-be

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Looking for a useful but unique gift for a new mom or mother-to-be?  Make some burp cloths.

I made these a few weeks ago for Mr. Aitch’s niece who’s expecting her first baby in February.  I used a few different prints and coordianted them with the baby bedding.

The tutorial is on my tutorial page.  You can make two out of one  yard of flannel or get creative and use two ro more coordinating prints and solids.  My original ones were made out of leftover pieces of flannel as well as some cut up flannel sheets and even a few of Mr. Aitch’s too-small-but-still-good flannel shirts.  Just make sure you pre-shrink the flannel as it will shrink…A LOT!!  I can’t stress that enough.  Pre-shrink!!

Click here for more info then print out the directions and make a mom happy.