The evening report

[jwgh]

This evening my father and stepmother came up to deliver my knitting bag and its contents (which I left in Massachusetts last weekend). I treated them to dinner at A Taste of India on Wickendon, and then we headed over to Nick-A-Nees to meet up with cgoldfish and saucypunk for drunken knitting.

As we were leaving Taste of India we ran into christychristy and Dennis, who were just returning from (finally) retrieving Dennis's new car, which is nice and shiny.

Nick-a-Nees was lots of fun as usual. I got a few rows done on the big sweater, put a couple of bucks in the jukeboxes (ten songs for a dollar!) and set my parents loose on them, and everyone played some Simpsons pinball. We did not avail ourselves of the free peanuts because we were all stuffed. Then everyone went home.

Over the weekend I finished up a couple of projects that have been kicking around for a while, and now they are back in my possession, so I'll be distributing them to the people I made them for soon. I just took some pictures of them, so here they are. Lots of thanks to saucypunk, who showed me how to make the crocheted border for the hat!

Here's the baby hat I made:


I tried modelling it on a meerkat, not with complete success:



Here's the finished bunny with its pom-pom tail:

Comments

[restartsmyheart.livejournal.com]

awesome hat and bunny!

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

That's a great hat; I love all the colors. The bunny's cute too.

[jwgh]

Thanks. I struggled for a while with coming up with an alternative to the heart pattern, but I finally gave in and decided to go with it. It came out pretty cute.

[junquegrrl.livejournal.com]

i love the hat! what kind(s) of yarn did you use? was it all one brand, or just one weight?

[jwgh]

It's merino yarn. I used two brands. The variagated stuff is 'Twisted Sisters' brand. The rest is Merino Big Superfein 'Lana Grossa' brand. Danielle helped me pick the colors out.

I think it would be a good project to get rid of little odds and ends of merino that you happen to have lying around since it's mostly short stripes of a bunch of different colors.

[jwgh]

I got the yarn at 'A Stitch Above', incidentally.

[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

aaah that bunny! so cute!

[peachcrush.livejournal.com]

What lucky babies to get such fantastic hand-made gifts! You did a great job. :)

[jwgh]

Thanks!

[christychristy.livejournal.com]

See how Bunny comports himself with pride and dignity, now that he has a full and lustrous tail!

[jwgh]

More pride and dignity than poor Meerkat can when forced to wear a hat, certainly.

[christychristy.livejournal.com]

Meerkat might enjoy a hat of his own for chilly days, but in a more petite style to better suit his slight frame.

[jwgh]

It's a little tricky owing to the lack of forehead.

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

The hat is cute! And the bunny is absolutely adorable!!