THE MARI BERET

I finally decided to change my style. I am into berets now. I think they look so adorable. This is my first one, and my inspiration was a sweet little girl who lives in Utah. Her mother wanted me to make a black hat for her with buttons. (this is not her by the way, this is Isabella's friend who had a birthday so she got the hat as a present, and she loves it!!)

 This was my first attempt at making what my friend asked me for her daughter. I used circular needles #2.5 for the rib. I cast on 52 and it was just right for this 3 year old head, which is not small like my teeny tiny 3 year old, this little girl has average head size for a 3 year old, I think I should use her always as my model cause when I used my girls the hats end up being smaller.

For the rest of the hat I knit seed stich with circular needles #10, I increase to 68 to give it that nice beret look. I did the crown the same way I do my other hats. I decided it needed a big flower which I made from ribbon and a flower button, I like it, do you?

And, here is the adult version of it. I used thicker yarn for this one and ended up casting only 48 and increasing to 58. I like it because it was a fast knit. (Well, fast once I figured out the perfect size for this kind of yarn) I used circular needles #10 and #13.

This one goes to a teenager so I thought it needed something different than flowers. I put two wooden buttons. It can be wore in so many different ways. 

I had a hard time finding free patterns for berets, so I did my own, hence the time I spent figuring out the perfect size. I will be posting the pattern for both kinds of yarn and sizes on my next blog so you won't have to figure it out. What do you think? are berets in or what?!! Thank you for reading!

The Fantastic 4 Team: Halloween Customes, Part II: Princess and the Frog...

The Fantastic 4 Team: Halloween Customes, Part II: Princess and the Frog...: Ever since Isabella watched the movie Princess and the Frog, she could not talk about anything else but Tiana, she just loves her, and I hav...

Halloween Customes, Part II: Princess and the Frog Dress

Ever since Isabella watched the movie Princess and the Frog, she could not talk about anything else but Tiana, she just loves her, and I have to say that out of all the Disney Princesses , she is my favorite, because she is not really royalty, she is a working lady with a dream, who happens to meet the right person at the right time and is humbled enough to go with it. Isabella wanted to be her since that moment. My husband got her the baby doll of Tiana for her birthday.

Here are the two princesses!! 

This dress was quite the challenge. the front is one yellow and one green blouse. Same with the skirt, basically is like sewing a dress over another dress. It was all new for me, it is probably something basic for experienced seamstresses.

I made three leaves for each sleeve. I made the flower with shiny, transparent ribbon with a little white ribbon flower in the middle, like the ones for my hats.                                                                                                                                                                    

I think the part that was hard was the fact that Isabella is so tiny, I had to resized the smallest patterns and still the dress is loose on her. I started on Wednesday 27 at 9:00 p.m. and finished on Thursday 28 at 1:00 a.m.

Anyway, she loves it!! even if nobody, not even one person knew who she was when we were trick or treating, sad!! I enjoyed so much making these customes for my girls!!