OWL in his hat!

"Itty-bitty" hat for nephew OWL

This adorable hat is just about to fly off to see it's new owner, my 3 month old nephew OWL (those are his awesome initials).  I was inspired by a hat pattern in the fabulous book "itty-bitty hats" by Susan Anderson which was a birthday gift from a fellow craft addict.

I partly used her pattern and mostly winged it.  I knit the hat and then added the ear flaps, whereas she knit the entire hat up from earflaps.  Both ways work splendidly I dare say.

The one big part I took from the book was the adorable snowflake pattern embroidered on top.  I love love love this part.

After these pics I lined it with fleece to protect his head from the itchies- I hope he likes it!

Thanks to Tanna's suggestion to do this and Ebot's math skills!!!

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric_items/new?design_id=137231

Snip, Snip

Yay! I'm finally one of the cool kids. Thanks for letting me in the craft addict club. This calls for a celebratory post!

Here's what's been going on in my studio, cough cough, kitchen:

Truthfully this all started because I went to consign some of Sunwoo's baby clothes at the consignment shop but they couldn't take some stuff, because they had stains on them. So I decided to give them all new lives.

Snip, snip, snip....
I have now discovered the joys of stenciling, which is basically an idiot's beginning to screen printing and oh, how i love it. I mean. This just opens up hotels of opportunities.

Every boy's gotta have a robot shirt.

I took the sleeves off an old shirt, put them on the top of this thermal pajamas, stole the bottom band from, crap can't remember, and cut an old tshirt to make the hood. Learned two lessons: how to incorrectly sew the sleeves on, and to make bigger hoods. Also I was trying out fabric scrap garment tags!Recycled Robot Hoodie, modeled by my son, Sunwoo.
Okay, repurposing clothes, take 2. Used this purple dress, which had some tacky looking flowers coming out of the other pocket, which is covered by this yellow shirt which has stains all over it. PS these were NOT rejects from my trip to Mommy N Me, since this is not really Sunwoo's fashion. The lady at Mommy N Me gifted me two tubs of reject clothing. Score!
Magically mixed some paints for this lovely spearmint color....
Ta-da! Recycled garden dress. This second wave of sunwoo starfish energy prompted me to finally update my website (yay, check it out! www.sunwoostarfish.com) AND to actually put something on the ETSY account. This dress is officially FOR SALE. (double yay! sunwoostarfish.etsy.com)
And that is why Sunwoo and I have been picnic eating our meals on the kitchen floor and not at the table like normal people.

Robot Stocking

Ant Cookies

My grandmother used to make cookies every year. When she flew away to the other world, no one really made those sugar cookie trees I loved. This year I decided to invade my aunt's house (that was previously my grandmother's house) to make those cookies. It was awfully convenient that Aunt Susan was making cookies that day anyway- the oven was already warm and more importantly, I got to try her spoils. Yum. Here are some pictures...I learned a lot about icing...