{crochet caps: repurpose what you already have}

Some­thing about win­ter (the cold obvi­ously!) makes the crafter in me yearn to pull out my yarn and make something…

I haven’t really shared any yarn projects here on my blog, have I? Its not because I dont knit or cro­chet– I love knit­ting!!! I have been knit­ting since I was in school. I just have this ten­dency of not stick­ing with a project till the end. I have a box full of unfin­ished yarn projects. There is this one sweater that I started two years ago for the older girl, which would fit the younger one atleast if I com­pleted it now. Its on my to do list. No 1 on my to do list.

I taught myself cro­chet after I got mar­ried– because I wanted to make beanies/caps for winter.The pat­tern I used for this one came from the Stitch n Bitch book. I found the pat­tern online for you here. This was sup­posed to be a beanie for my hubby. But I clearly got my gauge (size) wrong, coz it is tee­nie tiny. The girls found it the other day, and viola it fit the baby!

To make it pretty, as in fit a for lit­tle girl, I added a huge flower. The best part, is that I have a bunch of flow­ers my mom made last time she stayed here, and we just picked the ones we loved! It was a huge event for the girls– choos­ing which flow­ers and which but­tons they wanted on their respec­tive caps

The flower has a sim­ple cir­cle on top but the green flower beneath can be made like this. I have pinned a lot more Free cro­chet flower pat­terns onto my  yarnLOVE board on pin­ter­est today. So much eye candy!

And here is another cap repur­posed to fit my older girl,

The pat­tern for this one comes from here. I just used three col­ors of yarn instead of two. This was a cap that actu­ally kinda fits me, but it fits her SO much bet­ter! It was instant love for her!

I just added the three tiered cir­cle flower with a few but­tons onto the cap. I also gave it a pink edge, to pull all the col­ors together.

I totally love how these caps turned out!!! And they fit right into my new year res­o­lu­tion of make more, buy less.

Link­ing this to The Train to Crazy’ Make it wear it Thurs­day

 

PS: Miss Owens, how is your knit­ting com­ing along?