Dearest Readers, I made this earlier this year. After I finished it, I put down knitting, and even other crafts and sewing, for a long time. I didn’t realize that I hadn’t posted pictures! I am now experiencing a knitting renaissance, and will likely be posting many more knitted items 🙂 Garment Data:– Type: Sweater
Category: Clothing: Hat
Leafy Baby Hat
Dear Friends, I recently had the opportunity to give to a family in need, and one of the things they needed were clothes for a newborn, who they are currently expecting. I can’t give baby clothes without at least something handmade! So I pulled out my go-to pattern book for super-cute baby knits, and here
Another Slat Bonnet
Hi ladies and gents! This time I’m making a historical bonnet for a friend of mine, who wanted appropriate headwear for when she visits me at reenactment events. Okey-doke! Oh, and by the way, 50th post. Not much I know, but a small landmark 🙂 A thank you to all the loyal readers I just
Winter Hats, Part III: Mathematical Shapes (Mobius and Klein bottle)
Part III of winter hats is here! And this time it’s math-based. Remember Part I? It featured a blue hat? Well, I had yarn left over, in prodigious amounts. So I decided to make something for myself. I had seen a Mobius scarf, which I had really liked the idea of. As you’ll see, mine
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Winter Hats, part II — Jayne’s Hat
Ladies and Gents,As promised, part II of the Wooly-Hats Spectacular Spectacular!I’m trying the pictures in a larger size, let’s see how this looks!In this case, I made a Jayne-inspired hat, copying a hat that the character Jayne Cobb got from his mom on the TV sci-fi/western Firefly.The cool thing about his hat is that it
1920s dress!
Ladies and Gents,I was recently asked by a friend to help make them a 1920s costume for a one-time event. I agreed – this could be a fun challenge!It’s not an era I know much about, so I threw myself headlong into research.One of the notable things I found out is that skirts were not
Winter Hats
Dear friends!By request, I’m posting pictures from a few years ago that I hadn’t gotten around to posting yet. These are hats I made for friends and (when I get around to posting them) myself. They’re quite warm! I tested them 🙂 Garment Data:– Type: Winter Hat– Date made: Some time during the years 2003-2008–