Baby skull hat

Pattern:  baby skull (and crossbones) cap by Pippi Oviatt

Yarn: Patons Big Baby 8 ply wool
Needles: I used 4mm needles 40cm circular needles

The first try with the pattern, I bring the contrasting color hanging while I knit the rest of the round, then when I get back to the pattern in the next round, I bring the contrasting color back a cross the work and knit the pattern.  With this method i found it really messy with the finish product and it didn't look nice at all.

The second try I tie knots when I change color yarn, and I found this method faster and it looked alot nicer than the first try.

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Pattern:  Bumble Bee Buddy by ChemKnits

Yarn: 8 ply wool

Needles: I used 3.25mm circular needle

Notes: I didn't have any fingering yarn, only have some left over 8ply (dk) yarns, using a 3.25mm needle, the bee only measures 7cm long.  I did a 12cm long i-cord and stitched the ends together, folded and stitched in half and sewed to body .

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Viking Hat

Viking knitted hat for the toughest baby...!!

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Pattern: Viking hat designed by Becky Veverka of Chile Con Yarne  

Yarn: 100% alpaca 8ply for wood colour, 80% 20% lamp wool 8ply for metal colour.

Needles: I used 4mm needles instead of the 4.5mm as suggested

Notes:  I made the braids optional by making a loop at the top of the braids and attached it to a button on the hat. 

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Cupcake hat

  

Wearable Cupcake hat.....Too cute to be edible.

Pattern: Cupcake hat designed by Becky Veverka of Chile Con Yarne  

Yarn: 100% alpaca 8ply for ribbed colour, Shephead baby wool merino 8ply for frosting.

Needles: I used 4mm needles instead of the 4.5mm as suggested

Notes:  I found the pattern too big to fit for babies, i would suggest casting on 48 for a baby size hat.

Ribbed colour for 1. 1/2".

Knit frosting color for 4" then start decreasing.

I also sewed on some different colour yarns for the sprinkles instead of using beads so no worries of them coming loose as a bead can.

It took a while for me to figure out how to make the nubble.  I found a useful tutorial from TheArtsyfartsy123.  All you need to do is cast on extra stitches by knitting into the stitch and placing the loop back on the left needle.  Then bind off the required number of stitches to create the nubble.

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