Little Caps

I tried my hand at something slightly different and made a handful of baby caps along with a few baby sized blankets. The caps work up very quickly but I found that it was hard to make them unique and change the pattern in such a small size. I was able to come up with a few changes, aside from just changing the yarn to create different looking caps. I made a few flowers and pom poms and got really good at the scallop edging. I also made the blankets in three different patterns. These caps and blankets were donated to a hospital a couple of weeks ago and are already in use :)

Travel days

Over the past week, we travelled from south central Texas to north central Kansas and back home to visit family. It was, as always, a wonderful time with family and especially so this year as we had all 22 of us (4 generations) together at the same time on multiple occasions. This also meant approximately 24 hours of driving time to and from our destination. Thankfully, I have a husband that is willing to drive most or all of the time. I don't much like driving and I do like to crochet. He drove all of this entire trip and that allowed me to get 18 caps made in the car. I made a few adult sizes and the remainder in child and baby sizes, as I'm working to finish off and send a box of baby sizes soon. It was great trip with wonderful family time and I was also productive while we were on the road. That's an all around good week on this front.

Shipping success

Medical Center Plano

Thanks to some helpful advice from friends and family, a couple of weeks ago, I finally figured out how to ship using Paypal. It allows me to print my own labels, saves a trip to the post office and even saves some money on postage. My first package using this service went to the surgical oncology floor at Medical center Plano in North Texas. The wonderful staff, including one of my former students, took this great picture modeling some of the caps they received.