I shipped off the final 20 hats of the 104 hat order I was working on last week. These last 20 hats had some great new colour combinations including one of my new favorite. Here's a picture of just a few of the hats that were included in this order.
I thought I'd be ready to work on orders for my upcoming shows but this is not the case. Approx 57 more hats to make and THEN I can start working on inventory for shows. Although I think I will have to start sneaking some inventory in between orders soon or I won't have anything for my tables!
I was making some hats to drop off at the local store and made up this cute visor beanie in a misty grey and apple green. I love the colours together. This is one I'd like to make to get photos taking to add to my iCraft and Etsy shops. Maybe one day! lol
Here's the latest batch of hats I made to bring to the store. They sold out of the last batch I brought them within 3 weeks! It's been a busy summer.
Last year Gillian from Brilliant Beads made me some gorgeous handmade lampwork pink ribbon buttons. I once again asked her if she would do the same for me this year and she agreed. So these beautiful buttons are on their way to me right now! Soon I'll be able to add them to lip balm cozy key chains. 
Here are just a few pictures of my recent custom orders. An adult hat in brown with a pale pink flower and an apple green centre along with 2 lip balm cozies.
These were actually part of a trade I did with Becca Bee Designs (www.beccabeedesigns.etsy.com) who makes the BEST girls dresses. We have 5 now and LOVE them all. Very well made, wash, dry and they come out gorgeous! And psst - she has a back to school sale on now!
And these two cuties that were for sisters - a soft ecru hat with a pale pink flower and celery center and not to be exactly the same but to match is a pale pink hat with an ecru flower and celery center. They were really sweet.
I did manage to snap a some quick picts of these cute hats. Similar but just the colour of the inside of the flower is different. 
This is the ever popular flapper beanie in Ivory with a rose pink double flower. One flower has a celery centre the other has a soft teal centre. I can make you a hat of any colour combination too either through my Etsy store www.loopy4ewe.etsy.com or my iCraft shop www.icraft.ca/loopy4ewe
And I managed to take better pictures of this hat. The previous pictures didn't show it off very well.
I love how this wee hat turned out. All soft ecru with a pale sage green in the center. It's gorgeous and so classy.
And I finished this cute baby boy hat yesterday for another local photographer. Love the white with the robins egg blue! Can't wait to see the pictures :) 
I have an order of 84 hats to get working on. I'm trying to tie up loose ends and of course get orders that come in out as quickly as I can. May is an extremely busy month in this household so it's a bit of a challenge to get orders out in a timely manner. I usually like to ship within 1-2 days of the order. Lately it's been taking 4-5 days. Not terribly long considering all items are handmade by me, but longer then I like:)
Here are some hats I've recently completed. I few flappers in some colour combos I've done for a different style hat but not for flapper hats.
I'm donating this hat to my friend who is organizing a walk for JDRF. It will go on their raffle table.
And this hat is one that my husband has been telling me to make forever. And I've been wanting to make forever, I just haven't gotten there. But I had a request for one and I've done it. The hat is done, but I'm going to make a clip 
on flower to add to it. I'll take pictures of the 2 together when the flower is done. The bookends don't do this hat justice. It needs a cute kid in there!
I finished this Afghan a couple of weeks ago, just never had a chance to get the pictures until now. And I had no idea how to take a decent shot of it.
finished now and I'm not sure what to do with it. Should I try to sell it? With all proceeds still going to Breast Cancer? It's a large afghan. I haven't measured it but it's certainly big enough to cuddle up with.
I'm just not sure what to do. I'm happy with how it turned out though and happy to move it from the WIP pile to the completed pile.
I was asked by Natasha Moine, Ottawa photographer extraordinaire, to make some new hats for a twin photo session she has this week. Quick timing since the session is on Friday, but of course I was up to the challenge!
I honestly think these are the cutest newborn hats I've made to date. I just love them. Took awhile to get them right and I had to rip them out quite a few times, but I love how they turned out.
Last weekend I stopped in at one of the local shops that sells my hats. The message I got - bring in more hats! So I started making them on Monday with the hopes of having 10 completed that I could bring in today (Friday). I managed to get 12 finished and here are the 12 hats I'll be bringing in. I really love the Spring colours. Beautiful!
I finished up the wholesale order I've been working on. Twenty Five hats in a combination of flapper style and lacy beanies.
I dropped 16 hats off at one of the local stores, Tickled Pink, on Friday.
I didn't have time to take a picture of these until now. My girl has been bugging me for handmade socks. I started making socks this past summer. For me. Just for me. No one else. Every time she saw me knitting socks she'd ask when she was getting a pair. In August while on vacation she came with me to a gorgeous yarn store. And there I had her pick out some sock yarn that I would make her a pair of socks with. I'm also suppose to make myself a pair of socks with the same yarn. 
Great. Not a problem...but it was 6ply yarn. And although the ladies at the store told me to just cast on xx (48 stitches maybe?) instead of the usual socks are way to new to me to be messing with a pattern like that. I finally found a pattern for kids socks using 6ply yarn at a local yarn store and made these socks in time for Christmas. They were a gift so I didn't check them before making the 2nd. Sure enough they were too small. So I had to cut the toe off, pick up the stitches and made them longer.
I have also just finished and shipped a custom order for the following flapper and brim beanie. I'm working on finishing up two more brim beanies that will be delivered tonight if all goes well.
I just finished up another special order. I'll be picking up a pair of the Best Mittens Ever from a friend to match this hat and ship them off to the buyer.
I had a special request to make a sage green visor beanie with a cream flower. I was torn as to what to make the center. At first I made a flower with navy, but wasn't too keen on it, so I opted for an antiqued pink. I think it complements it nicely.
