My Yards of Yarn

So with this first post i will give you a little bit about me. I am first and foremost a mother of 5 wonderful children. I have a 7 year old girl, 4 year old boy, 3 year old boy, almost 2 year old girl, and 10 month old girl. You will see my 10 month old modeling a lot of my projects. She's got no hair so I feel obligated to make her stuff for her head even though she's in a thing of where she dont like them right now. I'm also a photographer. I love pictures and my kids love them too.

I will not be sharing patterns on here very often. I might share one every so often. I just really don't wanna get in trouble with other people and their own designs. I do have a project to show you all. Its a cute little bear hat for my 10 month old. It was actually a test run for a hat for a newborn shoot I was gonna have but not sure if I am anymore so who knows. Anyway here it is.

I didn't really follow a specific pattern for this. I looked at several hats out there and several already free patterns out there (i'll link a couple at the end). They weren't exactly what I was looking for so I just kind of winged it on my own. You can do this hat in both knit and crochet. There are several patterns for free and paid that are for both and here are two of them i've found and really like.

Crochet patterns ~

http://owlishly.typepad.com/owlishly/osito-infant-hat.html

http://naidascrochet.tripod.com/patterns/bearyhat.html

knit patterns ~

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/brown-bear-baby-beanie (if your a ravelry memeber you can get this as a free download)

If you aren't already you NEED to be a member at www.ravelry.com. It is an AWESOME site. I really love it. Not only for crocheters like me but knitters as well. Its AWESOME i tell ya just AWESOME.

Another thing I will be doing here is asking a fellow raveler to be kind of featured on here with her designs so be on the look out for that. Sharing free patterns that I find that really spark my interest as well as my finished project from that pattern. I've got one already lined up just gotta finish the project LOL.

I hope you like my little part of the world. have a fantastic day.

Hugs ~ Jeannie