finished things

Thought you might like to see what I've been working on recently!
I know it pops up in the sidebar with little pics of my projects, but these can be biggified, so you can see better!

Pic 1= my Seija set hat for little Jessa
Pic 2= Kathleen's scarf
Pic 3= Emma-Lee's christmas hat
Pic 4= Starburst hat... must have made a mistake somewhere!
Pic 5= me and SO having a day out in Rochester. Note my hand crocheted beret AND scarf!

naughty eh

Yes, I missed a day! It had to happen at some point. I wouldn't mind, but I even had a post ready and I just... well... plain forgot!

Ok, so I finished Jessica's hat and did another hat in an evening yesterday. Didn't come out looking like the pattern, but since I followed it to the letter it's obviously not my fault. Or something like that... Anyway, this is the pattern if you want to give it a try. Maybe you can point out where I went wrong!

So I gave Tasha Jess' hat yesterday. It was meant to be for xmas, but since I was seeing them (first time I've seen baba since September) I thought it'd be nice to give it to her. It was very well received! Nanny Dawn kept saying how clever I was, but it's not hard to follow a pattern! Tasha says she wants another one already- even though one of the earflaps was slightly longer than the other... oh well, that's how you can tell it's handmade! I bet you're all dying for a peek at baby Jess in her flap hat, so ok, pics are up. Just pop over to my ravelry or flickr and check out the hat "Auntie Tattoo" made ickle Jessa.

So not many things left to do before xmas now. Thank god! I'm getting so stressed out! I need to make something for my friend in the USA because I need to ship it by the weekend! Mummy help time I think!

One last thing, check out the vast amount of patterns over at StarGazer's.

EDIT:
Remember I told you about my mum's surprise xmas present? How it'd gotten a foot long? Yeah, I frogged it yesterday. It looked weird so I started again :S
Oh well, still 23 days until crimbles!

cold!

It snowed here yesterday. It was a pathetic amount, but at least it tried. Shame that by 11am it was absolutely bucketing down with rain- all the snow was gone :( I didn't even get a chance to play in it (because I was playing Pokemon Pearl in my warm bed!)...

It's FREEZING in the EH house today as the heating has packed up. Grandad was meant to ring the heating people about 7 weeks ago when the heating thingy (boiler? I don't know, I'm not a plumber) started making annoying noises (it's right next to the sofa where my mum and I crochet -in a cupboard- so we noticed it) and now it's packed it in! Great! I bet he feels clever now. *grump* >:| Luckily I'm going out soon, but hopefully the engineer will have fixed it by the time I get back from my errands.

This would be a perfect time to showcase everything I've crocheted in one mass wearing! :D

So I'm currently working on a baby hat for my friend's sister's little one (she's also my friend but whatever, I knew her sister first). I'm hoping the size will be ok, but since I don't have or want any kids of my own (and haven't seen baby in 2 months) I don't really know what size/s are right! The pattern is in the Stitch 'n Bitch Happy Hooker book right near the end. It's a pink/brown/white stripey earflap hat thing. The Seija set hat? something like that.

Anyway! I'm working it in Wendy Mode in black, white and azalia pink stripes with a 5mm hook because the pattern called for worsted and a 4mm- I don't have worsted so I'm using my initiative! I started it last night, and with a bit of help from my mum (regarding how the heck I was meant to drop one colour and start another, then pick up the previous colour 3 rows away), I've managed to finish the actual hat part! Now it looks like a beanie! I need to do the earflaps today- mum says I'll be able to do them and that they're "easy" but I'm not too sure... we'll see!

I really need to finish her scarf though, and I can only do it when she's at work, so maybe that'll take precendence today and I can do the baby hat later on. My only problem is I'm going to see Bill Bailey with my other half tonight, only I don't know when! Bah! Men, they never have timescales in mind. Don't they know we women like to run to schedule!?

Also, check out this pattern. I love it! So twee! I think I'm going to knock one together as soon as Jessica's hat is done!