Miss Aine

Last night peace was restored as Smem finally started to shake off her cold and had a great nights sleep. Praise the Lord! After 5 nights of broken sleep I was very nearly ready to call it quits. But all is well now. Might actually get some crafting done. Up to 43 little hats now. Think I need to try something new!

I've been making hats for the Big Knit all week. However, haven't got too many done the last two nights. Somebody has been refusing to sleep! Took some time out from hat knitting tonight to make a design of my own. Thinking of making a few Christmas decorations to put together into a leaflet for sale in my Etsy shop. Just have to think of a few more to make.

Not much crafting to report this week. Just lots and lots of hats. I'm up to 29 now so not going too bad. Great way to use up my flourescent orange. I bought that 25g ball with my pocket money when I was very young but have never had a good project to use it for. Now is its time to shine!

Big Knit 2008 has started and thank God Sweensie invited me to join. I needed a fun, fast project after the fairy godmother. And boy are these hats addictive! Here are some pics of the hats to far... I'm up to about 21 at this stage so going good. I read on the Innocent Smoothie website about one woman who made 750. C thinks I'm trying to beat the record! Only have until Oct 22nd though so I don't think I'll get anywhere near that amount done. One Friday I made a dress for Smem. Only realised that she doesn't have many 6-9 month clothes and some of the 3-6 month ones were just too small now. I had gotten a cheapo pattern months ago. It wasn't so nice so I used the shape to make my own pattern. I think its rather cute - if I do say so myself! And a very happy half year birthday to Smem who was 6 months on Sunday. (And I believe a happy birthday to Sweensie too!)

Thanks so much to everyone for all the lovely comments. It's so nice to get good feedback. The winners are: Katrina Serenity Pixielinds. (uys can you send on email addresses to aine.mahon@gmail.com so I can send on the pattern as I can't seem to get them from the comments left. Thank you.) A special note goes out to FunkyPixie for her fantastic poem. Please send me a contact email and I'll send you on a copy of the pattern too.

She's finished. Yippe!! Pattern for sale now in Etsy However, for this weekend I am giving away three patterns for free. Leave a post on the blog before Monday morning. Three will be picked at random and the pattern will be emailed to them. Good Luck!

Had a lovely weekend after. C was away so it was just me and Smem. My mam was up on Saturday night and we had a good long chat. Very nice. The Fairy Godmother is coming along well. I absolutely love her hair! She is quite large though, about 15". Think once I'm finished her I'll make a series of fairy tale characters in a smaller size. I'm itching to make a dragon. Today Smem got a new toy.....