Lots of Baby Hats!

I've recently been in touch with Tiffany Yates Photography on trading pics for some photo props. Her work is absolutely beautiful so I was very pleased to accept her offer. She requested a Brown Bear Hat, a Snuggly Sack and a few new (to me) types of hats. Thrilled with the challenge and the prospect of having professional photos for Etsy, I got to work right away. As I dislike buying patterns for things I should be able to figure out on my own, anything crochet really, I went with the good ole trial and error method. Severaly hours later, I had a pretty basic idea of how the pattern should go; I began working on different styles and colors. As it turned out, the hats were fairly simple to make and then I just couldn't stop. Six Stocking hats and three Pom-Pom hats later, I was so excited by my success that I tried out a pattern for a monkey hat that I found on a blog and was very pleased with the results. I was pleasantly surprised when the hat turned out quite a bit bigger than I initially expected and wound up with a hat that would fit 10-30mo.
I will post up the instructions for the pom-pom and stocking hats in a basic form soon. For now enjoy the few pics!

Busy Weekend, Lazy Day

My flowerbeds now have pretty gold mulch, I have the landscape timbers to finish building my vegetable and butterfly gardens, I went grocery shopping for the week, and I'm pooped out today.

Here's pics of my new flowers! I have Pentas and Periwinkles.




My herbs are coming along quite well. I can't wait to have my first cup of chamomille peppermint tea! As I relaxed yesterday I made a lightweight neutral colored crochet scarf. It's long enough to wear any way.




You'll need:

~2 skeins of medium weight yarn (I used about a third of each of Red Heart Super Saver Colors 0334 Buff and 0316 Soft White)
~size K crochet hook
~scissors


Row 1: Starting with the darker color, loosely chain 17. Double crochet one in third chain from hook and continue Dc across in each chain. (15 Dc). Chain 2. Turn.
Row 2: Dc in first Dc from hook. Continue across. (15 Dc). Chain 2. Turn.
Repeat row 2. Stop when you have 10 Rows.
Pick up 2nd color at the end of row 10.
Use new color for rows 11-20. Alternate colors every 10 rows. Continue on until your scarf is about 7ft long (each color segment is about 6") or until you have the desired length.
Tie off. Weave in ends.