Red Lace Slouchy Beanie

Recently a friend asked if I could make her a red slouchy version of my Golden Yellow Lace Hat. Here is the finished product! If you would like your own, don't hesitate to contact me, I can make them in any color and style you like :D
*oh and when my blog reaches 100 followers, I am going to do a big giveaway ;)

Finished Custom Order

Here is what became of that yarn I showed you back in this post.


Custom order for a coworker based off of a design from a comic book he and his boyfriend read. (From what I hear, his boyfriend wanted to wear it to bed last night he likes it so much!) I'm so glad they both appreciate the beanie, it was really fun for me to make :)

Finished One Order and Onto Another

I completely finished up that frog beanie and have since started on another custom order beanie.

The frog beanie is for a friend's soon-to-be-born niece. It was knit a little larger than newborn size because, the way I see it, everyone always get clothes and accessories for newborns but they very very quickly grow out of these sizes and rarely have enough clothes to fit them when they do. The beanie has a felt lining so make it extra warm (it is headed to Alaska) and big red buttons to hold the earflaps up if desired. I think it turned out really cute :)

The next order on my plate is a custom beanie for a coworker's boyfriend. He handed be a stack of comic books called The Runaways and showed me a character in them who wears various styles of beanies throughout the series and said to pick one. I looked through all the books, sticky-noted every page with a new beanie and after looking them over with the coworker we decided on one that kind of looks like an anime bunny with big floppy ears. Here is the yarn I am making it out of :)

Obnoxious Custom Beanie

I had another request for a custom beanie over the weekend and once the little details were squared away, promptly got started on its creation. My friend said he wanted a basic beanie, no earflaps or anything, bright colors, warm, funky and from there he gave me creative leave. And so this is what happened:

The only word I can use for it is Obnoxious.

I think it may be a bit much for my friend, but he said he would take it on a test ride this weekend up to Taos for snowboarding then let me know on Monday if its too much for him. If it turns out to be a little more than he bargained for I will take it with me to the Arts and Crafts Show in May in Los Alamos.

A New, Different Sort of Item For My Shop

So recently I have been toying with the idea of offering a sort of color choice option for my beanies in my shop. I have these beanies (like the Lemon Meringue beanie) that had a solid color undertone of sorts and a fluffy over tone of sorts and I have many different colors to choose from and I just simply couldn't decide which colors I wanted to do next so I decided to let my customers decide!
What do you think of this idea? Would you be tempted by it or do you like being able to see the finished product instead of having to guess what it will look like? (even if you know it will look awesome?)