Sweet knit winter hats...

Here is my baby 1 day old at the hospital, and I made him model his hats for a mini photoshoot. Isn't he just the sweetest! I HATE how fast they grow. He doesn't fit ANY of these hats anymore, but they were worth it to make because I have all the hats still reminding me of my tiny tiny sweetheart.

This hat is Sweet pea. Isn't it cute? I use 100% cotton for most of my hats. I don't like the itchy wool and don't want to put it on a baby that can't take it off if it bothers him. This one was for sure one of my favorites. You can find the pattern here.

Here is my funny girl with her funny "alien spaceship" hat. She loves this hat, and everyone comments on it everywhere she goes.

This one I made up after I felt skilled enough after making like 10 hats. It is super sweet. I think I may remake it bigger because it is so cute.

REmember Ya'll, Megan and I did all this knitting in the last year. And all we knew how to do was cast on and knit stitch. And when we got stuck, we did not go to our dear granny, or the sweet lady down the street, we went to you tube. I learned EVERYTHING from the internet, and not from a real life human. You can do this too!!! (If you want to that is...)

PS Partying with A Soft Place to Land, The Girl Creative, Made by you Mondays, It's so Very Cheri, Reinvented, We are THAT family, Blue Cricket Design, Finding Fabulous , AmyLouWho, and

Meet Charlie...

As you can imagine, we (my hubby and I) went back and forth on what to name the craft I am most proud of. After we got through the Hanna Jo's and Bessie's, we settled on Charlie. Yes, I know you're asking yourself, I made this! I am bursting with pride! Heather found these fabulous patterns when we first started knitting this last spring. We were quite intimidated and made a few hats first...but we couldn't deny our obsession with chickens any longer and we spent countless hours making them this summer.


I love her.

What is your proudest craft?

I think they're cute...

Spoiler alert, major show-off.

The knitting obsession continues. Heather, I thought we were quilters? See, I do have two little boys, for some reason people think I have a daughter the same age as Oliver...
I hope I never stop making these hats! I love 'em!

PS We've linked up with Kimba at a Soft Place to Land, go link up!

Hat maker hat maker..

What "in" courages us? Creating with our own 2 hands.
I went to visit Heather in Utah for 7 weeks and became a hat maker such as she is. How I adore knitting tiny baby hats!! Recently I had two friends have baby showers for sweet baby girls, and here are two hats I made from the same yarn. I love how they turned out!


Isn't she so sweet?!? Okay, it's my son. I don't have a baby girl :( When I was taking these photos, my husband opened the window and yelled from our room "Don't worry Meg, one day you'll have a baby girl." He better be right. I hope he doesn't mind these are in blog land. Sorry Oliver, but you are pretty adorable.

And speaking of babies, my partner in designing, quilting, crafting, gossiping, Heather had her 5th child, July 23rd. Her ONLY baby boy, Weston.

ConGRatUlATionS!!!!

love you :)

My After projects...

Over at the Inspired room there was a little before and after challenge for all the procrastinators out there.

My first project...this cute hat. My second knit hat, here is my first knit hat. I have been wanting to learn to knit for a while, and I am finally doing it. Love my little cute nephew more than the hat though.... and I made myself a promise, must finish completely a knit project before starting a new one!

My second project are these cardboard magazine boxes I got from target $1 spot like 7 months ago because I could recover them cute. Finally after like $8 in decorator papers (I sort of messed up and didn't cut out for opposite sides of the box...they are done. All I did to cover them was decopauge...may favorite! Not a cheap project, but love the finished result...

Here is the finished result.... They look so cute in my craft room that I am almost ready to unveil to you all... (that is one project that requires more husband help, so I will blame it on him!)

Hope you like my projects, small, but sometimes it is the small ones you never get to!

I made a knit HAT!

I made this hat!!! I am so proud of me!

You know sometimes you start a project with big ideas in mind? Lots of the time (at least in my case, the final project is not as cute as it is in my head). Well you knitters out there are probably embarassed for me and how proud I am, but I love this little hat! I learned basic cast on , knit, and pearl stitches from Grandma, but never learned to read a pattern. Anyhow, I did this without any human help! Just a fabulous book (I will post it next hat,) and you tube videos (who knew?)

I learned to knit on circular needles, learned about double pointed needles, learned to make pom poms too. The stitches were just basic knit and decreasing, a perfect starting project...Now I just need a cute little guy to put in this hat (counting down the days...)

What projects have turned out as cute in real life as they are in your head?