berets and flowers...

...fellow knitter silvia m. has made a bright, cheery version of the baby beret...her "boina da catarina" is made in rowan's luxury cotton and is embellished with crocheted flowers...you can see it on her blog, ao longe o mar...I love it!

speaking of flowers...

little knitted daisies are easy to make!

grab some yarn and a pair of needles...

cast on 40 stitches

(knit one, bind off six) five times...

you should have ten stitches left on the needle (one stitch on either side of each set of six bound-off stitches)
it should look like this:

break yarn and pull through those ten stitches...

partially weave in ends and use the excess to stitch the flower onto your hat

(or sweater, or...)

et voilà!

questions?  just ask!

pink and white...

picked up a new yarn at the

mendocino yarn shop

an organic cotton from debbie bliss...

these two balls will become a striped

sea star hat

for the infant daughter of one of the

v.i.p.'s of this year's

mendocino film festival

pattern for the sea star hat is available

here

raspberry berets...

three of them...

one for miss eleanor...

  one for miss olivia...

...and another one made by ddhockey
posted on her blog yesterday

want to make one, too?

here are the

directions

happy knitting!!!