Some Knitting Since Christmas

Here are a few of the projects I've finished since Christmas.  Some of them I forgot to take pictures of before I mailed them off to their recipients!

First up, is this dress and hat that I made for my friend Megan.  She is expecting her second child, a girl, within the next few weeks and I had to make sure she had something cute to wear this spring!

 

And a pair of baby sandals for her to wear right away!

And then, my brother Jordan's birthday was the beginning of January.  But he didn't put in his "order" until around Christmas time, and I couldn't finish what he wanted in 2 weeks, so it's a little late, but hopefully he likes it!

He wanted a black cabled scarf

 

And some texting gloves.

 

Jayden's Monster T-Rex

I will never make this dinosaur again .... unless Willow becomes dino obsessed and begs me to make one, then I might.  It took forever and then there was so many pieces to have to sew together, and I really dislike doing tons of finishing work.  I didn't even have it all sewn together when we left for Washington, so I finished it up after I got there just a couple days before Christmas.  I had no idea it was going to be so huge!   This thing took up a ton of room in the suitcase!

 

 

This pattern came from a free pattern from Patons that I found on Ravelry and I used a bunch of Comfort DK to make it with.   

A Hat for Bronx

I ran across this yarn while I was in Kelso visiting one of my favorite yarn stores, La Favorites.  It immediately made me think of my friend Sabrina, who has a son, Bronx, for whom I've been searching for yarn to make him a funky little hat out of.

I didn't really have a pattern for this, something like CO 40, knit for  4 or so inches, then decrease around, on size 10's or something.  I gave it to Sabrina today and she sent me this picture.

How cute is he?

Big Lacy Scarves

I just finished up a couple more Christmas presents.  These scarves came out of the More Last Minute Knitted Gifts book, and thanks to the big bulky yarn, each only took a few hours from start to finish.

 

Now, excuse me as I get back to finishing up a couple more knitted presents.  :)

Willow's Doll

This doll turned out so cute!  It knit up really fast, and I wasn't so sure I was going to love it, until I searched about in my scrap yarn and found this yarn to make curly hair!

 

I made this out of the Knitted Toys book, which scrap Cashmerino yarn.  I used the body of the Airy Fairy pattern and then knitted the dress from the Dress-Up Dolly pattern.

Cabled Fingerless Gloves

I have a gift exchange coming up next week, so I quickly knit up this pair of cabled fingerless gloves.  They took longer than I wanted because I screwed up the cables on both gloves and had to start over! Booo!   I'm sure it was because I know how much knitting I have left to get done before Christmas and I didn't feel like I had time to start over.  But I did start over and thanks to doing the cable pattern so many times, they went much faster the second time. 

At first, I wasn't really liking these gloves because of how long the cuff is, but I've put them on a few times and I have to say it's growing on me, I just might have to knit myself a pair!

 

These were made out of the More Last Minute Knitted Gifts book.

Elf Hats

A friend of mine was so kind and bought me a knitting book - More Last Minute Knitted Gifts!  I love it!!!  Lots of good patterns, I totally recommend it!  The first thing I made was a few elf hats out of it.  I didn't have quite enough blue to make Jayden's pointy, but he doesn't mind at all, he's been wearing his blue hat around everywhere!

Cabled Headband

I found this pattern out of the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living.  I picked up the magazine in hopes of finding some great ideas for Thanksgiving and turns out I liked the craft/knitting section the best - or maybe it was I never got past the craft/knitting section to see what else was in there!

Wooohooo! I Knit Something!

Knit AND finished thank you very much!

For new baby girl and her big sister!

Pattern is SouleMama's Favorite Knit Hat. (Just used smaller needles to make baby size)
Flowers were crocheted.

Quick Beret

This took two quick evenings to knit up.  There is suppose to be a cute little crocheted flower on the brim, but seeing as how I can't crochet and I spent a good couple hours looking up how to do it and then not being able to create the flower I wanted, I gave up.  :)

I made this for my friend Whitney's daughter, Surrey, but I have a feeling it's going to be too small, so I'll probably be making another one of these in the near future.  Good thing they knit up in no time!

This is from the Baby Knits Head to Toe book.