Free Pattern: Thick and Thin Striped Beanie Newborn Earflap Modification

For a sweet friend, a sweet little newborn hat.  I just put the earflaps from the Earflap Hat Newborn onto the Thick and Thin Striped Beanie Newborn, and edged it a little differently.  So not really a new pattern, but some might appreciate the step-by-step.

Craft Tutorial: Butterfly and Bunting Nursery Art

With only 6 weeks left before #3's due date, I've been trying to get busy!  I made this to match her mobile, which has hanging butterflies and flowers, with bunting around the four "sticks."  This piece (a little smaller than a piece of printer paper) will hang on the wall with the ribbon flower and some other art.

Craft Tutorial: Large Ribbon Flower

This flower is for the nursery wall of the on-the-way girl #3. I also made a crochet one and a felt one using other people's tutorials. Though I looked, I couldn't find instructions for large flowers made of ribbon, so I winged it. It turned out about the size of my hand.

Supplies:
Three types of ribbon, preferably all the same thickness. Mine were three quarters of an inch and the sparkly one was an inch.
Small piece of cardboard
Hot glue
Button, bead, or small flower for center

Instructions:
Cut a small circle out of the cardboard. I traced the top of a solo cup for my circle. Then I punched a hole in it in order to hang it on the wall.

Next cut 17 or so 6" pieces of the bottom color of ribbon. Fold them over and glue the bottom together to make a loop.

Start glueing the loops to the outer edge of the circle, being sure to put them close enough together to cover up the cardboard.

Fill in the circle, cutting more loops if necessary.

Cut 12 6" pieces of the middle color of ribbon, fold them over and glue. Start glueing the second layer. Mine covered the cardboard completely at this point.

Again, cut more loops if you don't have enough, and fill the circle.

Cut six or so pieces of the center color of ribbon. If yours is the smaller size you may need more than I did. Fold and glue into loops.

Glue onto center, close enough together to cover the tails of the last layer of ribbon.

Then glue the embellishment onto the center of that layer of ribbon, covering the tails and glue.

To make my double layer button, I glued a small flower button's attachment loop to the center of a larger white button.

And there you have it! Using a thinner ribbon in the center would make our look less like a Christmas bow, but I think it turned put pretty cute anyway. :)

And apologies for the crummy phone pictures. When I get my laptop back from the Nerd Herd I will post the better ones, and of course stay tuned for an early February post of the completed nursery with all its crafty goodness.


©2012 Alli Hyer, all rights reserved.  You may sell items you make with this tutorial, but if you sell them online, you must link to this tutorial.  You may not sell this tutorial or claim it as your own.  You may publish or post a link to it, but you may not publish or post it in whole or in part.

Free Pattern: Lacy Shells Earwarmer - Adult

This pattern in a toddler/kid size here.

I made these for my sisters and sisters-in-law this Christmas.  I searched for a pattern I wanted to use, and I found a whole bunch of cute ones, but I ended up making up my own since I hadn't found exactly what I was thinking of.  After several tries to limit the number of ends I had to weave in, I gave up and just made it look the way I wanted, even though there were more ends to weave in than I prefer.  I made a no-sew rose and a large no-sew rose on an alligator clip for each one.

Christmas Makes

"...The angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, 

who is Christ the Lord.'" Luke 2:10-11

Merry Christmas!  I hope you're having a great holiday celebration with your family.  Here are some of the things I made for mine this year.

A tiny rocket for a tiny nephew

 An infinity scarf for a friend
(thick and thin yarn, winged it in half double crochet)

A set of baskets and a star ornament for my aunt
(for the bigger basket I did another round on the bottom of 2 dc, dc,
then added an extra row on the side)

A washcloth for my Gran
(Up and down stitch, cotton sport yarn, 36 or so stitches by 32 rows)

©2012 Alli Hyer, all rights reserved.

Free Pattern: Open Stitch Hat - 3 Months

Premie size here.
Newborn size here.
6 month size here.

On the three-month size I used the open version of the large no-sew rose.  Love these colors.

Free Pattern: Vertical Stripes Beanie - 3 Months

Premie size here.
Newborn size here.
6 month size here.

This hat is a worsted-weight copy of this hat.  I think it turned out really sweet.  It would be a great boy hat, too, especially with a little brim.

The spaces between the stripes on this size aren't even, as you may be able to see.  I guess this could be good, or it might be annoying.  If you'd prefer even stripes, go up a size or down a size.

I decorated this one for Christmas with the Wreath Applique.