Lacy Yoga Socks

I found a great pattern for making these lacy yoga socks. It was designed and shared by Lisa Jelle. Lisa is on facebook at Kaleidoscope Art&Gifts The pattern can be found here on Ravelry

I was excited to find a pattern that had such a delicate feel to it and for short yoga socks. This pink makes me think of ballet lessons as my kids always had to wear this colour when going to their lessons.
These turned out so great and I immediately added them to my etsy shop. The listing is here and they are a steal at $30.00.
I had to review the foundation half double crochet stitch and then move on to learning a new lace pattern. I feel I want to adapt this pattern to use the iris stitch, and I will see how that works out.
 

I am making a second pair in lemon and then want to make some in pale blue and soft grey. I really love this design and hope you like it too.
Happy crocheting everyone.

Hooked on Animal Hats, My Fox Hat and Tiger Hat.

Once I made my first minion hat I started browsing all the amazing patterns for animal hats on .

The first one I made was the fox hat, just too cute to resist. The pattern is here. Of course I had to make it my own, and instead of button eyes, I crocheted black ones, and I am happy with how they look. My friend has a baby great granddaughter whose last name is fox, so this was perfect for her.

 

My cute little fox hat.

Next I made a tiger hat which I think is just as adorable. Once again the pattern is from Repeat Crafter Me.  
I also decided not to use buttons for the eyes on this hat. I just made some little crochet circles instead.

My cute little tiger hat, available in all sizes.

What I love about her patterns is that they are written up for all the sizes you could wish for.
So right now I am just finishing up my racoon hat and sewing the ears on my lamb hat. It is always great to get some new projects going and I am having so much enjoyment making little hats.

Happy crocheting everyone.

Minion Hat Mad

Well since making my first minion hat I have had lots of orders and requests for the one eyed hats so I have been busy. My first order was for some with the brown eyes and they were off to England.  These were fun as I got to make two kinds of smiles.

Happy Little Minion Hats 

Next I thought it only fair to make a girlie minion hat for all those girls out there who like pink and purple. I also added a bow, which can be placed anywhere on the hat, my granddaughter went for the side bow. This is the beanie style, but I also make some them the earflaps. I really like making custom orders as the variations are endless.

 My granddaughter is one of those whose favourite colour is purple. 

My granddaughter modelling the girl minion hat. 

Once I had made one beanie style hat then I had to make another. lol This is the one with blue trim.  Minions have such a lot of character and I think it is the personality that they have that makes them so popular with people, young and old. I just love the little bit of hair standing up. It is so cute.

Minion Beanie hat with Blue Trim

So the minion collection just keeps growing. The options are endless and I really encourage you to have a go at making one. As I said in my earlier post I got my first pattern from Repeat Crafter Me. I have since adapted the pattern but I am so grateful to this blogger for all the great patterns she provides.

Here are a few more hats I made.
You can see all my crochet hats on my etsy shop under the section Hats. :-)

Happy crocheting everyone.