A pleasent surprise.

I would like to thank this woman for making my life a little bright and more motivated lately. As my previous post said, I decided to make owl hats. I took them to some of the girls at work who I know had children and gave them away while showing them off to others. This set off the requests to have me make them some, and they would PAY me for them. I was actually in shock, but I was up to the task. I made four and three different ones on order. I have been tweeking with the pattern that I picked up from her and making a couple more things which I will be posting pictures of eventually. The fact that someone loves my work enough to want to purchase let alone have one of their loved ones has made me cry more than once. I have been making things like mad as well as getting the house clean and in order for the holidays. So, I will be purchasing her other pattern she has up when I get paid in the next couple of days, as well as posting my creations with a link to her when I finally get enough made that I can put a lot more of them on etsy.

A Family of Owls

At some point last week, I stumbled across this while surfing Ravelry.com. I have never done a hat before ever in my life, so I decided to at least attempt it. The only issue I had was no one I knew had a newborn. They were all older kids, toddlers, or almost a year old. So I decided to modify it a little bit. Now, keep in mind I am a newlywed, and my husband told me when I moved in that I cannot buy any yarn till I used most of what I had in the house. He is indulgent when I start a blanket and then don't finish it or when I show him a craft book I want he usually just smiles at me and nods before asking if I can wait till I finish what I start first. I am looking for various projects to use up the large amounts of dark colors that seemed to have bred while in boxes these past couple of years while I was working way too much. Now, since I do not have any newborns, I figured I would just add two HDCs and make it 14 instead of 12. This made it so the counts were in multiples of 7 instead of 6. It seemed to actually work out okay. I don't exactly know what size head it will fit, but I followed the pattern the rest of the way till ended up with this little owl.

At the point I finished this one, my husband had arrived home from work. He was curious and I set out all the pieces to show him what it would look like once I sewed it all together. He was really impressed, though I don't know if it was about me finishing something or the fact I was doing something crafty. Once I was done with that one I made these lovely little creatures.

The last two I started with 16 HDCs and in multiples of 8 and adding a couple of rows which fit a 10 year old boy's head just fine. There was only one issue that I had and that is putting all the eyes and ears on. I ended up making it look something like this when I put the bigger ones together

However, I tried something different on the last two and now you can see they look much cleaner.

I am actually quite proud of myself. I might make more of these with Christmas coming up and I can even make other animals if I want once I get the pattern for a cat or dog or maybe even a frog figured out! I know I can maybe look online for those, but I think it is more fun making up your own. Now I shall figure out who to give my family of owls too while I try to make more.