Portia in her Cupcake Hat

I gave the cupcake hat to our niece, Portia, this past week and it looked adorable on her!!  It fit just right, with a little extra stretch in it, as well as a little room in the top, for the upcoming fall months.  Jim took a bunch of photos of Portia in the hat.  I couldn't pick just one, so here are some of my favorites!

Drew approves of his cousin's new hat. :)

This baby girl could not be any sweeter! :)  We loved meeting her.

Cupcake Hat2

I hope it fits the baby this fall!!  I think this one looks much better than the first cupcake hat I made.  I used higher quality yarn and the color combo is better.  I've never seen this on a baby in real life, so it will be interesting to see how it looks.  I hope it's cute!

I have been on a girl hat knitting roll...

Rosebud Hat

I just finished the Rosebud Hat from Itty Bitty Hats.  I had never made this hat before; it came out cute! (The photos are all a little fuzzy--oops!)  It calls for 12 roses on top, but I only made 6.  I think it would overwhelm a little head with so many roses on top--and maybe be too heavy!  

Pastel Marley Hat

Baby hat knitting season has begun!  I have three friends with babies due in the fall.  I started with a Pastel Marley hat.  I have a lot of Cotton Classic yarn in pastels from Susan B. Anderson's jackpot that Mom won for me.  I wasn't sure if I had picked a color palette that I really liked until the very end, when I attached the Marley toppers.  Those toppers really make the hat!  I decided to only do 2 toppers, instead of the 5 she wrote for in the pattern.  I think that would be a little too overwhelming on a newborn's head.

I really enjoy making baby hats for people; the only bummer is that I rarely get to see a photo of the baby in the hat!  It's hard to know if the hats I'm making are the right size for a newborn, but I always hope the baby will at least fit into it during the next cold season.

Grandma Lydia's Sweater for Me

My Grandma Lydia was a great knitter.  She knit for her own kids and for her grandkids.  My mom has given me a few of the beautiful sweaters and hats she made for me when I was a newborn.  She was very resourceful with her yarn and after one of her kids grew out of a sweater, she would frog it and use the yarn for a new project!

I didn't start knitting until about 6 years ago, after my sweet Grandma had passed away.  My mom says she would be so happy to see how much I love knitting!!  I think so, too.  It is something special that we share!

After I finished Drew's green/blue zebra sweater, my mom thought she remembered a similar sweater Grandma made me.  She went through the photo albums, and sure enough, here I am (at 14 months, too!!) modeling a sweater my Grandma knit for me!  (Click on the photo twice to enlarge.)

It's pretty amazing to see we used almost the exact same colors!

Drew in his Green Zebra Sweater

Thanks to Jim for the beautiful photos!

Make It Work

I think it's fitting that on the night of the premiere of the new season of Project Runway, I am "making it work" with my own project.  This sweater has been a challenge...it has seen many revisions, and I am happy to say that I didn't unravel the whole thing in the process.  I kept working at it.

It's not perfect.  But neither am I!  I'm proud of it.  And I'm glad that I have a little boy to wear it who can make just about anything look good.  Photos of him in it to come...