Baby Round Ripple

I made this baby blanket for a friend. Her granddaughter was having her first birthday. I liked the idea of using a muticolored yarn and just not changing colors in a basic round ripple pattern. I used Bernat Baby Boucle color Fancy Free. I love those colors! It was a whopping 10.5 oz skein and I finished it off. It came out to be about 4 feet in diameter. I used Caron Simply Soft for the edging and the butterfly. My friend requested that I embroider initials in the blanket. I am pretty terrible at embroidering, but I gave it my all. You probaly wouldn't know that the initials are HRB if I didn't tell you! The butterfly was a creation based mostly on HDC and SlSt. I am not entirely satisfied with the shape of the butterfly. I would never give out the pattern for that until I can get it just right, but I was trying to finish the blanket before the birthday!

Dad's Half-Pipe Hat

I checked out Son of a Stitch N Bitch from the library and thought the whole book was pretty cool and I even wanted to make a few things for myself. My husband and dad thought the whole book was nonsense! However, my dad did like this hat! It's called The Half-Pipe Hat.

I used less than 2 50g balls of Dehli Queensland Collection color 05; 90% wool 10% Nylon. It took me forever to find the right yarn because none of the LYS around here sold the yarn used in the pattern. I can't remember off the top of my head what it called for, but I do remember that it was 2 strands of 100% baby camel. The brim is a crescent shape cut from the plastic grid material used for rug hooking. I think the hat came out great. I really enjoyed making the it altogether. I was fairly quick, easy, and painless.