Striped Baby Accessories - Sirdar

 

Design: Striped Baby Bootee, Mitts and Hat

Designer: Sirdar

Yarn: Elle Classic, 100% Courtelle

Needles: 3mm and 3.75mm

I made these from the remains of the 100g bals of yarn used in the previous sweater - and I still have some oddments left! I forget how economical baby clothes can be... These will hopefully keep little M warm through a Swiss winter!

I must say though - making striped bootees is a pain when it comes to darning in ends, especially as I'm more used to socks!

Innocent 'The Big Knit' - Smoothies Hats

For the third year, I knitted hats for Innocent Smoothies The Big Knit campaign. These little hats will go on smoothie bottles and for each one sold, Age Concern will receive £0.35. I enjoy making these - this year I decided to experiment with stitch patterns from my various books, and they still took less than half an hour each to make from start to finish. Of course, I had to make some stripey ones too, it just wouldn't be the same without stripey hats!

These use up oddments of acrylic DK from mine and ma's stash. Since starting to make socks and using wool rich yarns for those, I've really moved away from using acrylic, so this puts it to good use.

The total this year was slightly down on last year, but I still made 74 :o)

Here they are, all neatly packed for shipping...