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January 26, 2012
by Anne
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My First Attempt at Knitting a Hat…Tah Duh

So one of my “crafty goals” this year was to learn how to knit hats. {maybe socks….but first I have to get good at hats.} I have always been a crochet kind of girl. See here, here, here, here and here. But a few years ago I got this crazy idea that I wanted to learn how to knit and I have totally fallen in love with it. If you are a crocheter and you have never given knitting a try I suggest that you do!!! All you have to do is get over your fear of trying something new, watch a few youtube videos and get going! {You can check out some of my very first knitting projects here, here, here, and here.}

Anyhow…here are a few pictures of my first attempt at knitting a hat. I started off using 16″ Circular Knitting Needles and then switched over to these lovely 8″ Double Point Knitting Needles. I promise it is not as intimidating as it looks. Though I am definitely still trying to get the hang of it! :)

YOU CAN FIND THE FREE PATTERN FOR THIS HAT HERE!!!

Didn’t it turn out cute!?!

Ok. Cute as it was, it wasn’t perfect. I did struggle with what they call color jog and I also struggled with pulling my first stitches in each round tight enough…hence the holes. But hey, for my first hat…could I really expect perfection??? nope. :)

Anyhow, after I finished this hat for my daughter I caught my son rummaging in my yarn stash. He got a big armful of “boy” colors and then came and told me he wanted one too. So, I’ve actually already started on my knitted hat attempt #2. Which hopefully I will finish soon! Until then HAPPY KNITTING!

January 4, 2012
by Anne
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Crochet Owl Hat

Oh dear. dear. dear. My blogging has been a bit lacking as of late. Has it really been over a month since my last post? sheesh. :) Oh well huh. I’m hoping I will get more blogging done this year…I even made it one of my new years goals. I wish I was all gung ho and could promise a post a week…but well…I thought I would set my goal realistically and try to post every other week. “Try” being the key word… he he. I can only do so much you know. :)

Anyhow, a few months ago my neighbor sent me the link to make this adorable newborn owl hat. Isn’t it cute!!!

She wanted me to actually try to make it in a larger size, so I made one in the newborn size first to see how hard the pattern was and luckily it was EASY, and crocheted up really fast! (Gotta like that.) I still haven’t tried to make it larger…life got busy, and then the holidays, and I haven’t been feeling very well lately so…well…there you have it. Maybe I’ll get around to it soon :) I hope.

You can find the FREE PATTERN to make this adorable newborn hat HERE. (Just click on the link in her post to download the pdf version of her pattern).

November 12, 2011
by Anne
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Thanksgiving Oreo Turkey: Gobble Gobble

Last year for Thanksgiving when my family got together for our annual humungous dinner, we also made a few of these fun turkeys. I’m sure you’ve seen them around the web…I’m not really sure where the “original idea” came from. Maybe it was here, or here, or here…who knows. But they are cute aren’t they, and whoever it was that first came up with the idea…genius!!!

All you need is:

2 Oreo Cookies
1 Whopper
8 Candy Corn
1 Miniature Reeses Peanut Butter Cup
Frosting
Black gel frosting for the eyes

Then all you do is put it together like the picture above. Or if you are below the age of 7 you could add extra candies and put it together like so:

or so:

either way…they all taste delicious!

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! And Happy Turkey eating. yum. yum.

October 18, 2011
by Anne
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Miniature Candy Corn Cookies

Aren’t these miniature candy corn cookies cute! and uh…they were yummy too!

You can find a link to the recipe HERE.

And uh, don’t be like me…and think you are smarter than the recipe. These cookies really are made by only using a level teaspoon of batter. I know it will seem like nothing, and you’ll think “surely this can’t be right.” But it is. If you do more…they will turn out huge and they are definitely not as cute. just sayin’.

I hope you are all having a nice October!

:) YUM (:

October 3, 2011
by Anne
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Halloween Milk Jug Skeleton

I am doing a terrible job lately posting. JUST TERRIBLE! My last post was over a month ago. A MONTH AGO! I should be fired. FIRED I SAY! Good thing, I guess, that this is not a job :-) Anyhow, I am going to be quick…or I have a feeling this post will just sit in my draft box and never get posted. So here goes. The quick version of a post that could have taken an hour to write but I am going to give myself 5 minutes.

Here is the milk jug skeleton I made:

My babysitter growing up used to make one of these every year…and I guess I was feeling some childhood nostalgia or something…so I found a pattern, saved all my milk cartons and voila.

He really makes me smile. {smile.}

THE END.