Kelly's 30th Birthday hat

I knitted my friend Kelly a hat for her 30th as I was too poor to get her anything, plus I hoped she'd think it had the personal touch, as time and effort had been put into making her present :) I know that Jo liked her woolly hat that I made her for Christmas :)


I knitted the hat from a pattern I got off Ravelry (I had knitted the hat twice before and think its great!) with a white wool and some 8 & 10mm needles (nice chunky ones!) 

One I'd finished the hat, there was still a couple of days until the party, so I thought I'd see if I could find a pattern for a flower that I could knit to the side of it. I found a lovely pattern and decided to get my bead box out to add a little extra to the hat.

Here is the finished hat...

I woke up the morning after the party to see Kelly had opened her hat present and posted a photo of her wearing it on Facebook :)

The Bear Hat

I saw a cute bear hat pattern in my Simply Knitting magazine and thought it would be a great present for my friend Siba's little girl Macie. I ordered the wool from the internet in the colours that the pattern specified. (I normally just get a similar wool I find in Hobbycraft) and quickly made a start on the hat once the wool had arrived.


I seem to have lost the photos of the bear hats in process! :( I took them on my old mobile and I sold that! d'oh!


Here is the gorgeous Macie in the hat I knitted for her:

I was then invited to Kirsty's son Samuel's first birthday party, so with all the wool left over I decided to knit him a bear hat, but with the colours reversed:

Then Kirsty kept going on about how she wanted a bear hat too, so for her birthday she also got a bear hat! I had to adjust the pattern to make it adult sized! My pattern can be found on the Ravelry website (for sale). I used a similar wool from Hobbycraft as there wasn't enough of the other wool left to make an adult sized hat.

Knitting for the little Kaveney

When I heard that my friends Bud and Lorraine Kaveney were expecting a baby, I got excited about knitting her  something soft, cute and pink. I normally knit booties for newborns, but thought I'd try mittens and a hat for little Lily Scarlett!


I used a pretty pink bambino wool and got the pattern for the mittens from my Simply Knitting magazine. I should really update this blog more often as I can't remember where I got the pattern for the very cute hat!


Apparently Lily has worn them, but I didn't receive a photo to add to my blog.


Here is the set. I normally sew a 'hand knitted' label into the things I knit, but I didn't want the label to rub on the babies soft skin, so I loosely attached a label to the set so they knew I had knitted it. :)

Jo's Christmas hat

On one of my trips to Hobbycraft (can't remember what I was looking for this time) I decided to wander down the  wool aisle, and as I browsed the wool a certain colour wool jumped out at me and I thought straight away that my friend Jo would love something in that colour! So without even knowing what I wanted to knit for her, I purchased a ball of the wool. 

I browsed the patterns on Ravelry to see what I could knit with the chunky wool I had brought and found a lovely chunky cable knit pattern that I thought would be perfect.

I didn't get a very good photo of it as it was dark and my camera is rubbish in the dark, but Jo was very impressed with her hat :)