I told myself I wasn’t going to buy any more yarn until I made a dent in my current stash, which is fairly sizable now since I found a few on-line yarn sales. However, most of the yarn I have is either cotton or acrylic, and too thick and bulky for making baby hats and booties, which is this month’s charity challenge for one of the on-line crochet groups I’m a member of. So I went ahead and, with coupon in hand, trekked to Michael’s for some baby yarn. Aren’t these colors gorgeous? If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m a big fan of variegated yarn for some reason, I guess because you get a lot of color action without having to switch off and on to different colored yarns.

While I did make a few hats using some leftover yarn stash, the difference is night and day when I switched to the softer acrylic yarn made for babies, and I’m very happy with how the hats have come out so far and have even got one bootie made as well.

I have lots of yarn leftover, so I will try to go ahead and whip up as many hats and booties as I can. Here are links to the two projects I found on-line for those interested: Mari’s Baby Hats and Dandelion Dreamers Newborn Footsies. Since I’ve only got one bootie made (late last night), I’m still getting the hang of that pattern. It’s not too difficult but it ends with reverse single crochet, which I’d never done before and is a weird stitch to say the least. However, the hat instructions worked up very easily and quickly.