Now to get it there!!!

 There has been a whole lot of crocheting going on here.  Quick little projects that give my adhd pure pleasure!

 All this is going to somehow be given to a lovely lady to deliver to an amazing orphanage in Ethiopia.

So excited.  I can just imagine wee little toes being stuffed into tiny booties.  I didn't use a pattern, I just used a shrunken version of the toe up socks I made for the girls.




I made a sweet little sweater in a hairy pink angora/acrylic.  I'm happy with how it came out and I hate sewing buttons.

I suddenly flashed on a way to make sewing buttons to crochet pieces less of a pain in the ass....duh, use a piece of felt behind the buttons to anchor the stitches rather than try to weave thread behind a button shank through a solid enough stitch to hold it securely.  I don't know why I didn't think of it before, I've used the same "interfacing" technique for other applications.
I still hate sewing buttons, it's just faster now.


The most fun is that I have used up all of my partial-leftover skeins of yarn and I have room for a lot more new stuff!!!!! When I have some dollars to spend that is...ahem.  The following hats were made with bits of some of my very FAVE yarns. 

I even tried out a cute little pattern for a top knot baby hat, by Prudent Baby .

My machine is still out on the fritz so I used fleece and hand sewed it with a lazy baseball stitch.  I turned up a cuff and blind hemmed it.  I'm happy with how it turned out and I'm sure more will be made when I'm back with my machine.