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I'm excited to introduce the Sweetest Baby Hat , which I designed to match the Sweetest Baby Socks - together, they make a totally sweet baby gift! This adorable hat is nice and stretchy to accommodate fast-growing noggins. It uses the same stitch motif as the  Sweetest Baby Socks ; both can be knit with just one 50g skein of fingering weight yarn to create a lovely duo that’s great for gifting! The patterns are sold separately for $4 each, but if you purchase them together in my Ravelry store, you will automatically get $2 off . Also, if you have already purchased the  Sweetest Baby Socks  pattern, you will  automatically get the $2 discount when purchasing the Sweetest Baby Hat . They are shown here in A Good Yarn Fingering in the Jewels of Autumn colorway; it's a specialty base available at www.agoodyarnsarasota.com which is available in a variety of semi-solid and variegated hand-dyed colorways. I highly recommend giving this yarn a try: it's a ...

Once again, there are a LOT of new babies and babies on the way in my life: In addition to our newest nephew and my good friend's little one who were both born at the beginning of 2013, a few (more) of my friends are due in the new year, my cousin is due in February, and Tyler's cousin just had a baby boy this fall. Needless to say, I have been doing a huge amount of baby knitting these last few months! Here is the sweater and owl hat which I sent to welcome baby Ritter to the family: Pattern: #21 Raglan Cardigan by Therese Chynoweth Yarn: Brown Sheep Serendipity Tweed  JHB Button Closure Pattern: Crochet Owl Hat from Repeat Crafter Me (free pattern!) Yarn: Leftover yarn from sweater + Lorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted Rest assured, there will be more cute baby knits to share in the new year! 

Last week, I discovered that my blog readership was comprised mostly of enablers! Not that I'm complaining, since I rather liked the encouragement to work on as many projects as I like. I haven't been allowing myself too much freedom in that regard, but the gloves came off last weekend and I have to thank my blog readers for that! First, I started a very simple baby hat while on the bus; you may recognize it from last week's post , though I ended up not following a pattern after all (I didn't want to consult a chart while on-the-go). A few days later, I was done with my Cutie Patootie KAL/CAL baby hat! I used Cotton Comfort from the Green Mountain Spinnery , and I probably have enough left over to make another baby hat, or perhaps some matching booties! Over the weekend, I also started crocheting a retro mushroom potholder (available for free on the Lion Brand Website ). I never thought I'd be the type to make a potholder, but I couldn't resist this aweso...