Purple Bears and Babies

Kalie, who I consider my niece, had her baby girl on Tuesday at 2:07pm. When she found out she was pregnant with a girl, she asked me to make a bear hat, like I made for Khloe for her birthday, for her little one.

Valrico is expecting....

Tammy Hicks down at Gumballs and Overalls Valrico should be expecting my shipment any day now. I just mailed out the products that I spent last week making. I sent a total of 9 items for her store front. I already showed off about the button up pods that I was sending her. I decided to quick whip up so more things as well. I sent 4 striped, corded elf hats. I had a lot of fun using such different colors. That made them very quick to knit.

Corded elf hats

I also sent her 2 pom pom pigtail hats. I used some of my scrap yarns and they turned out better than expected. The purple and green one that is pictured was very hard to part with. Seeing as it didn't fit little Ryenn, I was able to send it rather than keep it.

Pom pom hats

I also had a request from a friend to create her a bear hat for her son's 3 month pictures. I was very excited to be adding to my products and helping out a friend. She sent me a photo of what she was looking for exactly and I tried my best to duplicate it. I sent her a picture of it and she said she loved it! I was so glad!

Bear hat

As you can tell, last week was a very busy week for me. And things don't look like they will be slowing down anytime soon. I was contacted by Gumballs and Overalls Rockford to develop some products to be sold EXCLUSIVELY on their online store. I am very excited to be working on this along with some products for {k} Newborn Photography and CLTG Photography. Don't worry, I will be selfishly knitting as well. Staring with finishing the short-row sweater.

Fantasy Football and a Polar Bear Birthday

Today was a very busy and productive day. I made up some new Adaly Myles Place products, signed up for Fantasy Football Playoff Challenge, and celebrated my youngest niece's (Khloe) 2nd birthday. She turned 2 on December 28. Being so close to the holidays, its hard to get everyone back together to celbrate her big day. So today was her big party.

My Sister Jessi and Khloe

Her and Nolan are right around the same age so it's super fun to watch them play together now. They battle over toys, get into things together, and just run around following each other. It's so cute!

Khloe and Nolan playing with balloons

I decided earlier this week that I wanted to make her a furry polar bear hat! I actually bought the yarn last night around 7pm and got started right away. With 2 kids to wrangle, it was a challenge to finish it on time. The yarn I used, Red Heart Baby Clouds, was a pain to knit with. It was the perfect yarn for the look I was going for, but I kept stabbing my needle into the fuzzy parts. It was making it difficult to knit this quickly.

The cutest hat!!!

I must say, I am proud of the end results. I got a book from my sister, Allyson Dykhuizen, called Stitch 'N Bitch Nation last year for Christmas. I cracked up when I saw the title. Amazing! Anyway, it had a pattern for a Russian bonnet that I absolutely loved when I first saw it. Well the pattern was for an adult. So I knit a general earflap hat for a toddler, added some ears, and then used the pattern for the pom-pom ties. They look AMAZING!

She wouldn't look at me for a picture!

My sister, Jessi, also was telling me how much she loved the poofy hair clips for her girls. Rather than her spending money on them, I decided I would use Ryenn's old tutus that wouldn't fit her anymore and make some myself. They were relatively quick to make and look adorable in her hair! I actually wipped up 6 of these little buggers in about 2 hours. What took me the longest was actually finding the alligatos clips I had bought months prior.

Hair clips for Khloe

I've decided to make up a bunch more of these clips, seeing as they were fun to make, I have TONS of tulle, and I have a daughter and 3 more nieces that will wear these. I am going to experiment with embellishing them a bit too.