Rats, and Hats

I don't know if I mentioned the Rat Bookmarks someone asked me to make them...  Someone from my quilting group posted a pattern and asked if I could make her a couple (three, it turned out).  And she would pay me.  I said I would. (Sigh...)  I HATE this pattern SO much!!!  #1. I could hardly see what I was doing, it was such small work. #2. There is so much sewing involved. You have to stuff the head. Way too much work for a bookmark!!!  I almost felt like messaging her and saying I changed my mind. But, part of me said "You said you would, just finish them.."  And it is my biggest pet peeve when someone says they are going to do something, and they don't.  So, I finished them.  

I used sock yarn and scrap peach yarn and white yarn I had.  The pattern is here.  I don't suggest making one. I never want to make one again.

On to the hats...  This is the hat I got out to finish from four years ago.  I like how the blocks of color ended up. I'll probably send this to Pine Ridge, or donate it to the Hats for The Homeless.

 This hat is for the HFTH. A lady who I met there once gave us her pattern for her hat. It's actually her pattern. And she gave me yarn to make one. She dyes her own yarn. So I'll take this up next time I go. They might be meeting again for the Sit and Stitch, I don't know. They opened restaurants here so I thought maybe they would be able to do the Sit and Stiches now..  Well that's all for today.

More Things I Finished in 2020

I didn't think I would ever sew any more face masks. But, my step-Mom had asked if I could sew another one for my Dad, "Since he just had the one."  I decided to do Christmas fabric (this was before Christmas). The top one is for my Dad, the bottom one for my step-Mom.

And the backs are both the same fabric.

Then I thought I would sew some for Eon and Eli for stocking stuffers. The top one is Eli's, the bottom is Eons'. The fronts and backs are the same fabric.

I don't think I posted the sweater I crocheted for Jetta for Christmas. This was a project I had started, I don't know when. And I picked it up and got the pattern out and finished it. Then I sewed a Christmas Tree I crocheted, onto the back.  I didn't crochet one for Jaxson, because he hates sweaters...  Well, he must have been jealous. Because I let them outside, and Jetta squatted down to pee. Jaxson walked over to her, turns and looks straight at me. Lifts his leg and pees on her, and her sweater!!  UGHH... So I took her sweater off soon as she got in the house, put her in the bathtub...  I couldn't believe it.

So, I went and got him a sweater, too. He was SOOO excited, he was jumping five feet in the air.  I for sure thought he hated sweaters, because he would never let me put one on him (except when he was a puppy).  Well, I guess I was wrong. 

I crocheted a couple twisted headbands. They are the Jolly Twist Headbands, on Ravelry. I know there are other twisted headband patterns out there for free, though. After I bought the pattern, I kept finding them for free online. Like this one. And this one.  Sigh..  

                                 Two variegated ones, I didn't add the contrasting color bands. 

 And this is another old project I had picked up, to finish. I didn't have a pattern with it, or even remember what pattern it was. I was hoping it was the same pattern I did Steve and Eli's hats with. But it isn't. This one I only cast on 88 stitches.  I looked through all my patterns I had printed out, nothing that I could remember. Then I went on Ravelry and typed in hat, knitted...  After some looking I found what I am 99.9% positive is the pattern I used. I remember for some reason, The Ships Project. Something in my muddy, pea brain clicked and I'm almost positive this is the pattern I used. I made a few of these in 2016, for a school on Pine Ridge. But I never posted the link to the pattern I used.  So now I have it.  It's called Hat With Heart.