A knitting fool

I'm really not, but it does seem like I've been knitting a lot lately.  The projects I've been working on have just been quick ones.  I just finished another star crossed slouchy beret.  This is my third one.

Finally...

I have a few pictures of a couple of gifts I knitted for Christmas.  The first one is an Irish hiking scarf I made for my Dad.  

This next one is a shawl I made for my Mom.  

Ravelry.com is a great knitting and crocheting community that has a lot of shared patterns.  I found the scarf pattern on ravelry by Adrian Bizilla.  The best is you can keep track of your projects, needles, stash of yarn, pretty much anything to do with knitting and crocheting.  

Knit shrug

I finished my little one's shrug.  I think it turned out great.  

This is a pattern I got off of Ravelry.com called Mon Petit Shrug by Jessica Salonen.

The pictures were taken in very poor light, sorry about that.

Kat's new hat

I finally finished Kat's new slouchy beret.  It's only been a month and a half.  Sorry kiddo!  I got sidetracked by some other projects.  I got the pattern off of Ravelry.com  It's called Star crossed slouchy beret by Natalie Larson.  It's very easy and fun to make.  This is actually the second one I've made.  

 Here is a peek at the first.

Lace-up gloves

I found this great pattern on Ravelry.com for these Lace-up Opera Gloves by Ysolda.  This pair is for Kat but I'm in the middle of making another pair for Mary Kate.  I had to change my needle size from 5 to 8 because the first glove I made was way too small.  Also instead of repeating the pattern rows 12 times I had to cut that down to 8 times, otherwise they would have been up to her armpits.  This was a really easy pattern except for figuring out how to do the left thumb gusset but that is probably just me.  :)  For the lacing I just got a 6 yard spool of grosgrain ribbon. 

Jonas Hat

I want to share all the other crafty things I do besides making soap. So to start off, here is a hat I just finished knitting for Mary Kate. She is crazy about Joe Jonas. (Okay more like obsessed.) Needless to say he had a hat on similar to this one in a picture she has and so I dubbed the hat I made "The Jonas Hat". I know, what an original name but she loves it and it looks great on her.
The hat is a pattern I got off of Ravelry.com called the Star Crossed slouchy beret by Natalie Larson. I love the pattern and it was the first time I've tried doing cables. Very easy and fun!