Look alike hat for Maja

A couple of months back Maja left her favourite hat at the dentist's waiting room. A week later, when I went to pick it up, it wasn't there anymore. It was just a shop bought pink thing with sequins on it, but she hasn't found a hat that she was happy with since, so I decided to knit her a new one.
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I have used Lille Rosin's pattern for the look a like hat from her blog: http://lillerosinquilt.blogspot.com/2009/02/look-like-lua-fra-vm-i-alpin-2009-det.html
(blogger won't let me highlight anything anymore, and that makes it hard to make the link look a bit nicer...) Hope the link works though.
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I cast on the same amount of stitches as the pattern said, but didn't increase as many stitches and made the hat a bit smaller than the pattern said, and it fits perfectly! Maja is very pleased, and I don't have a problem with getting her to wear a hat anymore....

Some new and some old knitting....

I've been knitting... I always have some knitting lying around for times when I need an excuse to sit down and do very little, but still look like I'm doing something, if you know what I mean. I'm not very good at blogging my knitting though. I tend to start using my knitted stuff as soon as it's finished.... like the beret on this photo.... I knitted it over a year ago, and I've used it loads... I didn't even have a picture of it... sheesh... I used a free pattern from Garnstudio for the beret, you can find it HERE.

I thought it was a good opportunity to blog my beret now with my NEW fingerless gloves. I used the same yarn on them as I used for the beret, so now I have a set.... The yarn is from my stash. It's really oooooold... it was something I got after my late grandmother, and I 've had it for years and years (gran died in 1995, so I guess I've had it since then.... and I'm sure she had it in her stash a while before that...) Lol...

The free pattern for these nice gloves is made by Ruth/Ullhedina. The gloves are a perfect fit. They're knitted on two needles back and forth, so they're really easy to knit up. I'm already planning on making some more of these. Ohhh... and look what hubby brought home.... a Nespresso machine! Wow... I'm luuuurving it! It was supposed to be a shared Christmas present from him to me and from me to him, but we couldn't wait until Christmas to start using it.... lol...
Well.... off to make myself a coffee....

Holiday crocheting...

I guess this hasn't been much of a crafty blog lately... too much else going on... like holidays and anniversaries and such... but that doesn't mean that I haven't been doing any crafty stuff!

Just before going away for the summer, I crocheted some summer hats for the girls.

I had some lime green cotton lying around from a previous project, and made a hat for Susie with that. Then, of course, Maja wanted one too. She chose the purple cotton herself.

I can't be bothered making two identical hats, so I changed the "holes" a bit....

During our drive to the north of Norway, I needed something small to do... Pot holders!!
They're nice and thick, and I just love the lime colour at the moment... so I must say I'm quite pleased with the result even though I made them without a pattern (which isn't really like me....)

I've also got a few cards to show... but it's getting late... will do that another day!

Ooops.... cat hat

I just realized I haven't blogged the previous hat I made for Maja.... oooops.... so I thought I'd at least share a picture.

About a year ago, Maja really wanted a pussycat-hat. With ears and fur..... so I made her one. I can't remember how anymore though.... This hat has been used LOADS! I think it's the only hat she's used since I made it.

Smock hat

It's been almost a year since I knitted a hat for Maja, so when I saw this hat on Bente B's blog I just had to make her one. And knowing me.... I can't wait till tomorrow before I start, so I had a rummage through my wool stash to find something to knit with. My stash is really small at the moment, mostly small balls of sock wool, leftovers that my MIL sent me. But I found some mohairish yarn. I knew it wouldn't be enough of the main colour, so I have mixed and matched different thicknesses and needlesizes to get enough for a whole hat. It didn't turn out too bad. Maja loves it, and that's the main thing. She even has the hat on when she goes to bed at night.....

The hat is supposed to have some of the vertical rows pulled together and decorated with beads but Maja was so eager to start using it, that she didn't want any beads on it. I said she could start using her hat without the beads and I could put them on later, but I don't think she wants any beads on. That's what she says anyway. I might try and talk her into me putting on a few...... we'll see.

Etsy

I've just opened my own Etsy-shop! Yay!! Haven't got a lot in it yet, but I'm working on a few more things, and I'll start for "real" as soon as christmas is over and done with..... I know I should really have had a lot of stuff in there BEFORE christmas so people could buy stuff from me for presents.... but.... achhh.... Anyway, there's a link on the right hand side if you want to go and have a look (and maybe buy something????;) ....)

These are the things I've already put in my shop:

Some Hardanger embroidered Needle books

A green stripy bag

and a childrens fleece hat