This week's finished items!

This week I started and finished an adults hat made with Stylecraft Chunky Harlequin, and a baby's waistcoat from the same yarn. In total, I used 2 balls. Last week I started a hat in Ice Yarn, making a ribbed hat. This took me a while because it was US sc in back loops only, so I had to concentrate to just do one loop. If I was to do it again, I would do US dc so that it goes a bit faster!
I put the waistcoat on a teddy to model it, the yarn is hard to photograph!

And here are the hats:

The purple one matches the baby hat I made our little girl.

And I had enough yarn left over to make 2 headbands!

New hat!

I'm making my first crocheted adult hat! Decided on a ribbed hat, it is taking a while, crocheting US sc in back loops only is much slower then if it was both loops, or dc! I shall persevere as I am halfway there. When it's done I want to put a pompom on the top, partly to hide where it will be joined as the hat is a rectangle with a side seemed and gathered at the top.
I want to add a photo, but google have removed the app so I'm having to use the website on my phone and I can't upload any photos. Will have to fire up the ole laptop!
Here is the photo of the work in progress! Hopefully it will match or at least co-ordinate with the purple baby hat I've made with the same yarn (Ice Yarn).

Cat in a hat

This is Shoo, the glamorous, sulking cat who was picked from the audience at random to model a cat hat. Also, her sister kept knocking it off when it was on her.

I based the pattern off of a newborn hat, and kept trying it on each round. It's simple, so I'm sharing the pattern. 

Baby blanket for a friend

I wanted to make small granny squares for once, so I made this baby blanket for husbands cousin who is due October, they're keeping the sex a surprise so it has some boy and girl colours in it. Joining the squares was such a pain, no matter how I tried there was a ridge. I tried join as you go but I didn't like it, and it made joining the small squares to a big one rather tricky, so I frogged it. It's about 22".

Chunky baby blanket

Another item I made for our unborn girl! Took me ages because I ran out of yarn and couldn't find more for ages. It's a never ending granny square in King Cole Chunky. It took a massive 7-8 balls! No border on it. It worked up fast at first, then grew slower and slower. Towards the end, a ball would barely do 2 rounds.