I had a little crocheting block over the summer… it seems that doing this activity when the weather is consistently over 65 degrees just doesn’t feel right to me. I started a sweater for myself last June and almost finished it but we finally got our summer and having a sweater pile up in my lap started making me feel all stabby.
Now that it is cool out again the crochet bug has returned which has coincided with a gaggle of new babies! I decided to get accustom to this hobby again by cranking out a few hats before returning to my sweater.
I made this one for a friend of my mom’s who had a little boy a couple of weeks ago. This is the ear flap hat pattern that I was using a lot last year but I added the little ribbed fold to it.
My brother’s friend just became a daddy for the first time so I made another ear flap hat for his little guy.
My cousin and his wife had a sweet little baby boy over the summer and they named him Odyn. I found this pattern on Etsy and decided that baby HAD to have this hat, especially since he has proven to be quite the little warrior since his arrival. He was born with a very serious health problem and completely kicked its ass! I can’t wait to see a picture of him in this… I will be shipping it to them tomorrow.
The holidays are fast approaching (I was completely shocked when I realized that it is almost November the other day!) so I will be doing a lot more sewing and crocheting in preparation. I have been running two other blogs in addition to school, art, and being a mom & wife but I will do my best to keep up in here.
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Hello, my name is Katie. I am first and foremost, the mother of an amazing 14-year-old boy. There are days that I am unsure if he is amazing in the “extraordinary human being whom I adore spending time with” sense of the word or just an amazing pain in my ass… I am sure he will get over this with age. On the whole he is a great kid and I wouldn’t trade him for the world. I am also the wife of a pretty bad ass barber. He is my co-pilot, and more often than not, my conscience (he pretty much keeps me from telling everyone what exactly it is that I think of them or what they have done on a regular and unedited basis). I am also a daughter; sister, aunt, niece, granddaughter and a friend to those brave souls who choose to voluntarily spend time with me. Obviously my family and friends mean a great deal to me (mess with them and I will cut you… OK not really, but I may make you cry nonetheless).
I spent many years struggling to find me in all that I thought I “should” be doing. I thought that I had to be just one thing for many of those years and could never choose what that one thing was to be. I have led a pretty interesting life thus far and hope that I continue to have many great adventures (but perhaps these good times could be more easily won once in a while. yeah, that would be nice wouldn’t it? Meh, we all need our pipe dreams). I have been a lot of things so far; I was a “Dead Head” in the early years, I have been a waitress and sales associate… I devoted the first five years of my son's life to being a stay at home mother and went back to work in the medical field once he was old enough to go to school. I started as a CNA in the home care industry where I did a lot of hospice work. That job made me sad after a few years so I moved on to my work as a “Birth Control Fairy”. I did this at a very busy and well known family planning clinic and I truly loved what I did there. Unfortunately I was stricken by a rare illness in 2006 which has left me unable to continue working and after struggling to grasp what has happened to me for a few years, I realized that I have yet another chance to reinvent myself, which I dearly love doing.
I recently realized that through all of the years of trying to find myself, I have always known who I am. I am an artist. I create and I don’t have to create one thing. I write and I sew, I decorate my home… I paint and draw and glue things to stuff… I don’t have to be told I am an artist by anyone else. It is who I am and is what I need to do. I can be fickle and silly and whimsical (which is one of my favorite things to be by the way) and indecisive, this is who I am and I think that if I can learn to live with it then so can the rest of the world. So after this little gem of a discovery I have yet again reinvented who I am by becoming a college student!
I just began my first term at the Art Institute and will be working toward my Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design. I hope to hone my crafts and gain the experience and knowledge I need to make a career of doing what I love. You will find my writings here… you better belt yourself into your chair though; sometimes reading my thoughts can be a bumpy ride. I also do more serious writing but generally keep that to myself and will continue to do so until I actually publish these mysterious bits of fiction that I hope to turn into books one day (you know, I don’t want some wanker stealing my work or something like that). I will also be posting and writing about my art and sewing here; this is a new thing so it may take a while to get a lot of that posted.
I do hope you enjoy my blog, if you don’t that is alright too… it is you who has to live with your ultimate suckiness.
