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Andrew thought Ramsey looked pretty cute in his Stetson. What do you think?

LOVE LOVE LOVE this set!

This is the most recent set off my needles, and as soon it was done it went immediately onto the head and hands of the new owner. Saw the hat pattern in a book, and fell in love with it, made the hat and had enough left over to make some hand warmers, so I designed these to go with the great hat! So pleased at how they all came out, what do you think?

my first hand spun and hand knit hat!!!

I just finished this hat tonight and I couldn't be more excited about it! It's been a while in the process, because I spun all the yarn from roving I purchased this summer and started knitting it last night. It's a 50/50 combo of mohair and lambs wool and as soft as can be, and it's for sale!

a fun process!

Two more hats!

I've been rather busy this week/weekend, I finished two more hats, I just love the style and cannot help myself. I need to buy some warmer fiber to work with or actually get my llama fiber to the spinning mill and then I'll have a ton to work with. But like I said I'm using what I have on hand and using that up first. So here's a spruce-y green number and I 'girled' it up a bit with some sparkly buttons.
This brim is called mistake stitch ribbing and I made it because I loved the name. What a hoot and it comes out like this?! Now that's a mistake I can make again and feel good about! I feel like this one need a deeper purple button or two, I'll have to check out my stash and see what I've got. What do you think?

Something finished this way comes!!

Yesterday I posted the beginning of this project, this hat. Like I said yesterday, I've been trying out some new skills and knitting techniques learned be reading knitting for dummies. One of them was the moss stitch, when I did it in the practice swatch I thought, "This would look nice as the brim of a hat." So I made one. I'd already made a rolled brim hat from a pattern that my grandmother had given me and modified it slightly into the button flap hat you see below.

This was my first attempt with circular needles, interesting, I think I'd like it with a bit more practice.

the finished product!!

Faith modeling the hat, not too bad.

*It's not as warm as I'd like, it's acrylic, but for this it's ok and I used what I had on hand.

Oddly enough, he liked it!

It's been getting really cold here lately and one morning we went out to feed the farm Andrew wore his mad bomber hat out, well when we got to Buckley Andrew thought he was cold. He took off his hat and gave it to Buckley. Buckley is seen here sporting Andrew's hat and really seems to enjoy it.