Dean Street Hat

This is a Ravelry pattern,click here if you'd like to see the pattern. Finished on July 5, made from Vanna's Choice yarn, in brown. The color is much darker than in the photo, but couldn't get the detail of the stitches in the sunlight.

Hat

This is the Blue and White hat from the Kids Knitted Hats pattern book. Here's a link to the book. It has lots of cute hats in it, for ages 1 and up. Another one in Vanna's Choice baby yarn in the same colors as the berry hats. It's a pill box style hat, and if I made it again would use more contrasting colors. Am getting low on the lavender, anyway, time to move on to something else. Like getting the rest of the flowers planted, or setting up the loom and warping, maybe spinning or combing some wool.

New toy

Found this on a local online yard sale site, an apartment size wringer washer. The motor wasn't working, but Bill got it running again. It is about 1 1/2 feet square by three feet tall total. There is no agitator, just a fan in the back of the tub to stir the water up, and a pump to run the water out. Or you can just drop the hose down to drain it. We have a hot water faucet outside, but it was a lot of work to wash wool out there in buckets. Now I can just roll this out there, plug in and fill with the hose. We just need some warm,dry weather to try it out.

Berry baby hat

Finished the hat this morning, made from Vanna's Choice Baby. Nice and soft, looks bluer in the picture than actual. It's a gift for our friend's new granddaughter. She was born about a month before our grandson, so it should be the right size this winter. Started another one tonight just because the first one was fun to make.

Knitted baby socks

These are the North Country Baby socks, and the yarn is my handspun, a corriedale that was combed, spun then dyed at a workshop at Joyce's house last fall. Started a hat with it, but it didn't look very nice; the repeats were short. The small socks were just the right project for the yarn! It didn't take much either, used up part of the skein on the far right. Might make some matching thumbless mittens with some of the leftovers.

Another baby picture

New Arrival

Matthew Evan, born June 4, 5:50 am. Weighs 7 lbs. 14 oz and 21 3/4 inches long. Kelly is doing fine.