My first pattern!

I did it. I wrote my pattern for the boobie beanie hat! 

After my post a few months ago, I've made 10 or so more hats and have tweaked and perfected my original hat concept. I have sold a few hats through my etsy shop, but can't knit fast enough to make it worth my time. And being the idea person I am, I want to make new stuff! (sewing, lots of sewing is coming my way - I can feel it)

It was a great exercise to write out my pattern that has been in my head and to test it out a few times. I polished up the layout, added a few cute pictures and voila! I have a pdf pattern available for sale.

Since this blog is very low traffic, and I haven't done much to publicize it - I will give away a copy of my pattern to my um, loyal readers. Comment, send the link around to your friends and I will close the comments on Saturday morning - random drawing and maybe you'll get lucky!

The give away is over - lucky Sarah, my only commenter got a copy!

Few more hats...

Knitting: my excuse to skip the laundry and watch some tv, but yet feel like I'm doing something very productive. I highly recommend it.


Introducing the "cookies and milk" hat! A customer on etsy asked if I could make this baby hat for her new grand daughter. She like the idea of a cookie to go with the "milk." I used a smaller needle size than the boobie beanies and it had a satisfying smoothness as a result. 

The next special request was for a boobie beanie but with a tan skin color and dark chocolate nipple. Same 3-9 month size as my original ones but again, fun to play with the colors a bit. 

Boobie Beanie!

I've seen the idea of a boobie beanie on the web lately. Moms put a hat on their baby while they are feeding them and it looks like they are flashing their breast in public. A perfect combination of humor, inappropriate behavior, and practicality if you ask me.
This spring seems to be a world of babies in a my life and I have the itch to knit. Knitting comes in cycles for me and when I am in the mood I love it. Then the needles get put away and I don't think about them again until after Halloween. This year the knitting bug seems to be lasting a bit longer, hopefully long enough to get some baby gifts finished.
To find my pattern, I did a ravelry search and found a boobie project that was a little pillow, rather than a baby hat. The upside was that it started at the top and worked down, which I wanted to try. To count, and follow a pattern is fabulous but I often lose my place. This approach allowed me to concentrate on the nipple/areola part, adding stitches, etc quickly and then just knit and knit until I got to the bottom edge of the hat.

I took guess on the size, and with my size 8 needles, worsted weight yarn it is a 3-6mo size.

The best part of the project was shopping for the yarn: Me with a 3yr old and 1yr old in tow walk into a delightful local yarn shop. "How can we help you?" I reply with the standard, "just looking, thanks!" Well, the helpful women really wanted to help - they brought the kids toys, asked about what baby I was shopping for and wanted to know what color/weight I was looking for in my yarn. I gave in. I told them I wanted to knit a hat that looked like a woman's breast so when my friend was nursing it would look like she was exposing herself. First they looked at me like I had three heads, then nodded and went to work finding the perfect yarn. They laughed as they held up different balls of yarn - "does this look like a nipple? is this too peachy to be skin? how dark do you want it?"

It was fabulous and I'm sure they shared the story with their friends too.