Birthday Gift

This mauve colored poncho was a birthday gift for a little friend of ours.

I used a larger hook to work it faster but it looked too wide around the neck so I added this neck trim & tie in a lighter shade.

She received quite a few outfits as gifts & they were all pink, so it ended up matching quite well.

Recycling yarn

I tried my hand @ 'recycling' yarn. I had thought of it before but didn't realize you could you actually DO it. I found a blog that detailed how to unravel a sweater for the yarn so I did it! I ended up w/ 2 HUGE balls of chenille like yarn. That is one of the balls in the picture. I made a hat. I also created the scarf by combining the sweater yarn w/ another yarn. I still have plenty of yarn left over from the original ball I used.

I was not happy w/ the way the scarf was coming out using only the sweater yarn. I stiched, pulled it out, stiched & pulled it out again numerous times before I finally combined it w/ this pink yarn. I used a 'P' hook & double crochet to produce this chunky finished product. I absolutely LOVE it! It is very soft.

Matching hats....

I recently started making hats or 'cloches'. I made this one w/ the matching poncho as a gift. The hat was too tight for the recepient so I exchanged it for a solid mauve colored hat w/ a poofier flower & then trimmed the poncho in mauve along the collar.

I didn't quite follow a pattern for this particualr hat as much as I tried to fudge it. So the top has a 'bump' in one corner. But it looks absolutely darling on my 3 yo dd. I have gotten better w/ my hats since this first one.

The colors for the poncho came out much nicer than on the hat. It must have been a different 'lot' because the poncho colors were more 'pearlish' than on the hat.