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I’ve been working hard since my last post trying to get as many new caps finished as I could. I have two new hand knit beanies finished in my 2X2 ribbed pattern…. I really need to come up with a name for these caps since it sounds a little retarded describing them as 2X2 ribbed pattern beanies. I got to work on designing a new shell stitch pattern beanie for women and I have seven of those completed now. Oh yeah, if anyone remembers awhile back, I was creating a mesh stitch beanie for men that I was having trouble getting the sizing right on… well I have pretty much gotten that pattern squared away and will soon start producing beanies in that style as well. You can see me modeling one of my mesh beanies below. Let me show off my latest beanies.

First up is this blue camo stripes beanie. It’s pretty much the same pattern printed yarn as the green stripes beanie I did awhile back only it’s done in blue.

Next up is this beanie in white, blue and purple shades. It is called Sea Spray Stripes. I think the colors in this one would be more suited for women although some guys might like it as well.

Here is a bunch of women’s shell stitch beanies I’ve been making along with two of my men’s mesh style beanies.

And finally I wanted to model one of my mesh beanies for men so here I am wearing a blue camo stripes mesh beanie that I made with yarn I had left over from the knitted beanie I made. I altered the pattern a bit in that on the brim I only did one round of single crochet stitches. I think I like the cap much better that way.

Well that is all I have to show for now. I still haven’t thought up a name for my beanie shop yet, however I am thinking about opening a temporary shop on etsy so that I can start selling my hats before winter is over. I’m just not feeling very creative at coming up with a name right now even though I have had a few ideas… but none I cared to stick with. Well I’m going out to take a walk and enjoy the autumn scenery. Later!

Here are some more women’s hats I’ve finished recently. The colors are warm brown, carrot, light blue, some stripey blue, bikini mix, and light raspberry. I actually have two or more hats of these same colors made but I didn’t put them all in the picture. The last time I counted I have made about 30 of these so far. Some people call these tams, some people call these berets. Whatever you call them I think these are cool and they are fun to make. I am really getting a lot of yarn used up making these hats, but I still have a long way to go before I’ll be ready to move on to something else. I didn’t realize just how much yarn I had in storage until I started getting serious about opening up a new shop online and trying to make a lot of stuff to increase my inventory of items to sell. I am trying to make these hats as fast as I can. I have come up with a couple of ideas for some other hats I want to make as well as some small handbags I want to make as well. I still haven’t come up with a name for the shop yet but I am working on that. I just can’t seem to come up with a really cool name that stands out from the crowd…. but I will. I’m starting to get a feeling though that this winter is going to be over before I get ready to start selling this stuff but if that is the case then maybe at least I’ll have time to get into making some more of my hemp jewelry for the upcoming next summer. We’ll just have to see how things are gonna happen. I don’t want to rush into this thing the same way I have in the past to find myself not quite yet organized and ready enough to run the business the way I planned.

That would be me of course, making one of the hats I’ll be selling when I get my business going. The fall season is here and as most of you out there who keep up with my blog know that the four things I love the most in life are getting outdoors, my crafts, movies, and listening to my music. Going to the lake in the fall season is my most absolute favorite thing in the world. I love the cool air, the leaves changing colors, the beautiful sky over the water and just sitting there with some yarn and a crochet hook or my knitting needles making a hat. That is just what I did yesterday. I am going back out there today, despite how high the gas is right now. Screw it right. Life is too short to stay cooped up in the house all the time right. Later!!

A day or so ago I showed you a 2X2 Rib Stitch skull cap I made with some pink camouflage yarn. Today I want to show off this pink camo tam. This is one of the ladies tam hats that I have been making over the past couple of weeks. I’ve been meaning to get a picture of one of them online to show how they look when worn so here it is. I hope you like it. These hats will be selling for around $10.00 when I open up my shop. I think one of these hats would be a great accessory for any woman of any age.

I got up at 9:30 a.m. today and started working on a new beanie cap design. I have been wanting to do a cap like this for quite sometime but I never could find a pattern that worked out well for me, so I made up my own design and this is what I came up with. By the way, yes that is me modeling the hat. Anyway, I wanted a design that could be made up for a guy or a girl depending on yarn color and I think I hit it right the first time. I didn’t exactly get the size down perfect on this first cap prototype, but it is very close and I can get the size down better when I make more of these. Also the burgandy yarn wasn’t my color choice to make this cap, but it was a good scrap yarn to use for trying this out and it is a nice color anyway so whatever. I think once I get this beanie perfected it will be a nice addition to my cap inventory when I open my shop.

Well I just wanted to show off this new cap I made up today. I gotta get outside now and go cut my grass. It is looking like it might rain and I don’t have much time to get my grass cut before the rain falls. Oh, just to add this… I have been doing some major yarn stash busting still. I’ve made about four or five more tam hats since I posted the hat and scarf picture a few days ago. I will try to get a picture of the new tams up for you to see later this afternoon after I have mowed my lawn.

The seven items pictured above are my reasons for not posting much over the past few days. I have been very busy hibernating in my bedroom for the past two days making scarfs and learning how to crochet tam hats. I actually have three scarfs completed although I only photographed two of them. The tam hats, or berets as some people like to call them, are very cool and they stitch up kinda fast. I made those five tams in two days. I would have been able to make more in that time, but much of the time I spent making them was experimental as I needed to get the sizing just right. Hats are a little tricky for me sometimes, but I love making these tams. These tams can be worn by both men and women depending on your color choice. The pattern is a “granny stitch” pattern made in the round which looks really cool when worn. I will post a display photo of some of these tams at a later date so that you can see how they fit.

I have an update on the news about my upcoming hemp jewelry shop. I have sort of come up with a name for the shop although I am not ready to reveal it just yet. The reason for that is because in order for me to take over the name of the domain I want for it, which is currently in a locked status, I have to wait for it to expire so that hopefully I can purchase it and start using it for myself. The particular domain I want is set to expire on September 11th, 2008, but I think there is a short waiting period before it can be purchased by someone else. I’m really not sure how all that works so all I know is I might get it and I might not, but I’m hoping that I do get it. It is a really cool, simple, and fun name which would make a very cool domain name as well as a business name and I might also gain a new nickname from it. I am really excited about it, and I wish that I could reveal the name I have chosen, but if I want to be able to purchase the domain when it expires I have to keep it under wraps for now so that nobody can snatch it out from under me before I have a chance at it.

Some of you may be wondering why I keep talking about my new hemp jewelry shop when all I’ve been showing lately is crocheted and knitted items I’ve made. Well the reason for that is simply because I really haven’t had a chance or any inspiration to create any hemp jewelry lately, but I have lots of hemp jewelry left over from my previous online hemp jewelry shop so basically you could say that I simply want to carry over from where I left off before. Maybe I’ll do some more show and tell soon and dig out some of the hemp jewelry I have in shop so that you can get an idea of what my hemp jewelry looks like.

So that is all for now. I am going to watch a movie now (Transformers maybe) and work on some more tams. Later!!

A few days ago I showed you a scarf that I’m working on to wear this winter. Today I want to show off this round crochet blanket I started crocheting Sunday afternoon when I got home from work. This is something I am just making up as I go along and my pattern isn’t perfect but it is good enough I guess. The blanket doesn’t lie perfectly flat because I put a few too many increases in some of the rounds but I am trying to correct that by decreasing the amount of increased stitches. I wanted to have a sort of fishnet style stitching in the blanket so it is basically double crochet, chain 1 stitching around and around with one round of increases and one round of even stitching. My plan is to make it just big enough to cover the top of my queen size bed so it will be big enough to use as a bed spread or a furniture throw. I don’t think it is going to take more than eight balls of yarn to make this and I think if I can spend at least one hour working on it each day then I should be able to finish this in about a month. I was inspired to start making this by this girl’s round blanket posted on craftster. Her blanket however is done with half double crochet stitches. I knew that wouldn’t work for me because I crochet pretty tight and half stitches would have taken me forever to produce a blanket like this. So there it is, another yarn project I am currently working on. I hope to be able to show you the finished product around this time next month or sooner. So far at this point the blanket is only about 18 inches across.

Update: I am afraid I have sad news. My blanket wasn’t turning out the way I had planned. In this second picture you can see the progress I made today and also that the blanket had a slight ruffle in it that I was totally not satisfied with so I ripped off the carrot colored yarn to be used in my next project which I will be bringing up in my next couple of posts. Oh and if your wondering what I’m doing with the baby blue part of this crochet flop, it is going into a basket as a reminder to better construct my patterns in the future instead of just winging it.