The balance

All the man-ness of camo just had to be balanced out by more pink-ness LOL Here is the end of the yarn that I used to try out my lace pattern.

Can you see me now?

Jim was bitterly complaining sweetly suggesting that I was really tending to more of girl hats (I wonder why?!) So I had to appease him and make some boy hats. What speak more "boy" than some camo... right?! right?!

The result of my long search for camo yarn are these 5 cuties.

Maya's creation

My sister was rather intrigued by my pom-pom maker, so she decided to try her hand at it as well. The result is this cute little boy's hat.

Lucky, so very lucky!

If you have seen my main blog, you probably know that we have flooded. Why do I bring it up here? It is because I wanted to share how lucky I was with this project.

Our basement is out "entertainment central". Kids have majority of the toys in there and our TV and Wii live there as well. This makes it a natural place for my knitting. I can do it when kids play during the day or when Jim and I put it a movie after kids' bedtimes. So all the hats resided in a nice bag on the floor by the couch.

Or at least they did until my mother -in-law came for a visit and I was showing them off to her upstairs. Being scatterbrain as I was I never did move the bag back where it lives. And this fact serendipitously saved all the hats from destruction (and let's admit it, if they got wet, I would have cried many tears as I chucked them into trash).See, it pays to be messy LOL

I did lose some yummy yarn that was left out on the floor, but I lost none of the hats! Lucky, just so lucky and blessed, especially, since I have gotten so much help with this project, many of them would be irreplaceable.

The mini quintet

As I was talking to my co-workers about this project, I have been immensely blessed by offers of help.

These little beauties (and they are the smallest so far) have been done by Lou using the loom technique. I got to watch another friend do it, and it was super amazing to see :) What a cute set!

The flower

So far this is the only version. But Nastassia really like her flower hats and I thought I might do some little cuties for the project as well. The flower is detachable for easy laundering. And I hope this will grace some pretty little girl's head soon enough.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child