My Bear Cocoon Project

I know I've mentioned my expectant friends before. My friend Sarah wanted to make the project to the right, and I agreed to do it with her. I thought it was a cool idea. Sarah made hers for her baby, and I made mine for my friend Nicole. The majority has been done for awhile now, but I've been putting off doing the feet, which I finished tonight.

In the meantime, I've been working on a few things in addition to transferring everything I need over to the new computer (which is about 98% done). Sarah sent me a nice pattern for a baby hat. I made one while we were watching a movie at home one night, and I'd love to make more, but I'm not sure where all those hats would go. I'll have to find somewhere I can donate anything I might make.

Anyway, I bought this beautiful bear cocoon at Etsy. I had to make an account, which I plan to use more in the future. The seller of the pattern was Sandy's Cape Cod Originals. She has so many nice patterns that it'll be hard to chose another. :)

New year/new project

Happy New Year!

Last night we went out with my friends Rus and Sarah. We did dinner and a movie, and then we came back to our place, where Sarah and I started on the project to the left, this bear hat. It's an adorable combo pattern of this hat and a sleep sack. Together, they look like a little bear.

I bought the pattern on Etsy, at Sandy's Cape Cod Originals shop. The pattern is fairly easy to follow, even though it contains some stitches I've never done before. I'm working on the sleep sack now, and I'll take a picture of that when I'm done.

I think I might look for some more of Sandy's patterns when I'm done. But first, I checked out Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker from the library yesterday, and I saw a few nice patterns in there that I might want to try in there first. The book has the cutest pattern for a sock monkey baby afghan that I'd love to try. It's granny squares, which I haven't done in ages, but hopefully it can keep me occupied long enough to finish it. I have up on my last granny square baby afghan. The idea of making so many small squares lost its appeal after about 25 squares. :/