Barbara's Creative Projects
Because Mina liked to “ride” her broom I decided to make a hobby horse for her. I found a pattern online on Lion Brand Yarns — free with registration on the site. I just used yarn from my stash. I will take it to California when I go there in August.
My first great-niece, Hayden Violet, was born on February 11, 2011 to Heidi and Jordan Foster. I have crocheted a sweater for the little girl, modeled here by Hannalora.
As the kids and I chose not to give each other Christmas gifts this year, but old habits die hard, I decided to make them something. I tried knitting again, and did make fingerless gloves for the wee girl, but it was looking like, at the rate I was going, it would take till Christmas 2011 to knit something for everyone, so I returned to crochet. But here is a picture of Trina wearing hers on Christmas morning. I made hers from “Stretchy Sock” yarn, 75% cotton 25% wool blend. Christine’s were in green Peruvian wool and Heidi’s in a blue and white Queensland Collection Merino Spray 100% extra fine merino wool. Christine and Trina also got headbands.
For the men I made hats. I used Diamond Lima Luxury Collection 100% Peruvian Highland Wool trimmed in Sirdar Clik Aran with wool (70% acrylic 30% wool). I used the pattern in the Fall 2009 Interveave Crochet magazine “Leaf Peeper hats” (p.62) for Simon and Masood. I made one like that for Gary, but Trina said it would need to fit under his bike helmet, so I did hte Tahoe hat (p. 54) in the Sidar Clik for him.
The little hat on the bottom of the photo is for my wee girl. Here she is modeling:
My mother saw me making these hats and requested one, too. So I also made her one with the Sidar Clik, mostly light with the darker trim.