The Dyeing Spinster

Hat finished and photo taken at a local apple farm in October.

Late last night I finished the little man’s hat! It fits just as I wanted it too, but the top is a little bunchy for my tastes…probably the way that I did the decreases at the very top I would imagine.  Pictures to come later so you’ll see what I mean.  I started the decreases at […]

The blog has been pretty slow since I haven’t actually been getting much accomplished…the little man has definitely slowed down my fibery pursuits, but he’s so darn cute that I *guess* it’s okay. =) Recently though I have managed to get some projects going….
I’d like to get the little monkey in cloth diapers eventually so I […]

I managed to knit and crochet 21 hats and headbands before mailing them out tonight.  Many more than I thought I would get done! After finding a crochet hat pattern that I really liked though, I went crazy with variations in color and edgings. I had so much fun making them!  Alot of the crochet […]

Here is the pic of the hat that I couldn’t get uploaded last night =)

Too bad I don’t have a little model to try it out.  I used the Just Your Basic Beanie pattern by Patti Pierce Sloane that I found on Knitting Pattern Central.  It was a nice easy pattern to follow in a […]

I recently found this site for the Soaring Eagles Project: http://soaringeaglesproject.blogspot.com/ .  An elementary school teacher in Oklahoma has organized this project in order to give a handknitted hat and scarf to every child in the school.  Here what she said about why she started the project in the Soaring Eagles blog:
While our school and other […]

to my new blog and blogging software. I wasn’t really comfortable with my previous one and decided to give Wordpress a try. So far I am really liking it, but I am only one day in. Here’s wishing me the best eh?! =) One thing I really do like about wordpress […]