Lavender Slippers and Headband

I was asked to make a pair of little fancy shoes for a 2-year-old for Christmas. First I thought about making them red or green, or red-green, you know, in the Christmas spirit, but I had some lavender color merino wool that was just begging to become a slipper. And then to seal the deal I found little pencil-shaped buttons in the same color. There was no more doubt, the slippers were to be lavender! 

I made the sole black (for practical purposes, naturally). 

Lavender Butterfly Headband

Since I had some lavender color wool left over, not enough for a new project but enough for a little accessory, I made a little headband, with a butterfly. It has a little pencil-shaped button too which is not only decorative as on the slippers, but practical so the headband is adjustable for different head sizes.

Lavender Booties and Headband Set

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Eary Bunny's photostream on Flickr.

Collection of my wooly works can be found also on Flickr.....hope you'll enjoy it!

Hat sets - a hat for mom, a hat for the little one

I went a little crazy with the brimmed hat pattern and made two new sets. 
One set has a standard brimmed hat with bow, just a bigger one for mom, and a smaller one for toddler. Its a set for the stylish moms which love a little twist in the coloring. It's a turquoise/fuchsia combination.

Turquoise/Fuchsia Hats

But then I realized not all moms love brims and bows, and weird color combinations so i made another set, a more classic one. A white hat with brown brim and matching bow for the baby (newborns size), and a bigger one without the brimm and bow, just a thin brown edging for the more elegant mom. 

White/Brown Hats

"Chocolate Hat" - free crochet pattern

White Chocolate Hat

 It's from a series of hats I named "Chocolate Hats", and the one in the photo above is the White Chocolate Hat and the one below is the Chocolate Hat. I also made a "Milka" Chocolate Hat for kids and that's the one at the bottom of this post.

Chocolate Hat

Here is a pattern for these winter hats.
Start with chain 4 and create ring with slip stitch in first chain.
1. row - chain 3, 15 dc in center of ring, slip stitch in 2nd dc. (16 stitches)
2. row - 1 FPSC around first dc from previous row, chain 2, 1 FPDC in same stitch, and then repeat: 2 dc in next stitch, 2 FPDC around next stitch till end of row  finishing with  slip stitch in top of 2nd FPDC (32 stitches) 
3. row - 1 FPSC around first FPdc from previous row, chain 2, 1 FPDC around next stitch, and the repeat: 1 dc in space between the second FPDC and next stitch, dc in each dc, FPDC around next 2 FPDC till end of row and finish with slip stitch in top of 2nd FPDC (40 stitches)
4.-10. row - (determines how wide/large the hat will be) - 1 FPSC around first FPdc from previous row, chain 2, 1 FPDC around next stitch, and the repeat: 1 dc in space between the second FPDC and next stitch, dc in each dc, FPDC around next 2 FPDC till end of row and finish with slip stitch in top of 2nd FPDC
At the end of row 10, you should have 96 stitches.
11.-15. row - 1 FPSC around  first FPdc from previous row, chain 2, 1 FPDC around next stitch, and the repeat: 1 dc in each dc, FPDC in each FPDC till end of row and  finish with slip stitch in top of 2nd FPDC.
16. row - make an entire row of single stitches to finish. Cut and fasten thread


Stitches used
slip stitch
single stitch
double stitch 
FrontPostSingleStitch - FPSC - video tutorial
Front PostDoubleStitch - FPDC - video tutorial

"Milka" Chocolate 

Brimmed Hat - free crochet pattern

This is a brimmed child hat I made from a pattern found on Ravlery - currently my favorite web site. The pattern is Big Girl Bonnet by Kay Rae. I made some slight changes in coloring and made a bow instead of the flower just to freshen things up a little but the pattern remains the same.
I'm posting the pattern here just in case you don't have a Ravelry account, but I sincerely recommend you create one and go crazy with their patterns :-)

Hook size G/4.00 mm


Rnd 1: Into magic ring, ch 2 (1st dc), dc 11, join with sl st to ch 2 (12)
Rnd 2: ch 2, dc in same st as ch, 2 dc in each dc (24)
Rnd 3: ch 2, dc in same st as ch, *(1 dc in next, 2 dc in next) repeat * to end, join (36)
Rnd 4: ch 2, dc in same st as ch, *(1 dc in next 2 dc, 2 dc in next) repeat * to end, join (48)
Rnd 5: ch 2, dc in same st as ch, *(1 dc in next 3 dc, 2 dc in next) repeat * to end, join (60)
Rnd 6: ch 2, dc in same st as ch, *(1 dc in next 4 dc, 2 dc in next) repeat * to end, join (72)
Rnd 7: ch 1, sc in next dc, ch 2, 4 dc in same dc as sc, *(skip 3 dc, sc, ch2, 4 dc in same st as sc) repeat* to end, sl st to ch1 (18 shells)
Rnd 8-14: ch 4, turn, *(sc in ch 2 space of shell, ch 2, 4 dc in ch 2 space) repeat, sl st to top of ch 4 to join. (18 shells)
Rnd 15: do not turn, sl st in 1st dc of shell, sc in 2nd, hdc in 3rd, dc in 4th around, sl st to join
Rnd16: ch 1, sc in each st around, join
Row 17: sl st in next 13 sc, ch1, sc in next st *(2 sc in next st, 1 sc in next st) repeat from * in next 28 sts. (44 sts)
Row 18: ch 1, turn, (in back loops only on this row) 1 sc in 2nd st from hook, 1 sc in each st to end of row, 1 hdc in sc of hat, 1 sl st in next 2 sts
Row 19: ch 1, turn, sc in 2nd st from hook, sc in eact st to end, hdc in st on hat, sl st in next 2 sts.
Row 20: repeat row 19
Row 21: ch 1, turn, sc in 2nd st from hook, sc in next 11 sc, 2 sc in next st, sc in next 22 sc, 2 sc in next, sc in next sc to end, hdc in st on hat, sl st in next 2 sts
Row 22: ch 1, turn, sc in 2nd st from hook, sc in next st to end, hdc in st on hat, sl st around back of hat to beginning of brim, fasten off, weave in ends.

Pink Brownies

Brown slippers with pink edges and a decorative buckle for children. The pattern is ribbed with single and half-double stitches. 
Made with hook size 4mm.

Butterfly Set - baby dress + booties

Butterfly Set - baby dress + boooties, a photo by Eary Bunny on Flickr.

A navy blue dress with matching booties for newborns. The lower right butterfly is a pocket, and the upper left butterfly is only decorative as well as the butterflies on the booties.

Green Ripple Dress

Green Ripple Dress, a photo by Eary Bunny on Flickr.

A simple summer dress, very easy to make.
The top is made with single stitches, and the skirt part with double stitches in ripple pattern. The dress is made in one piece and doesn't need to be buttoned in the back. This is very convenient if kids are dressing Barbie in it, since they usually have issues with buttons :-)

Pretty in Purple with Jacket

Pretty in Purple with Jacket, a photo by Eary Bunny on Flickr.

Currently my favourite Barbie dresses!
It is actually quite a simple pattern: the top is made with single stitches, and the skirt with shell stitches all around.
Hook size needed: 3,5mm/E hook
The white jacket was made by my sister.

Barbie dresses

I have quite a collection of unique handmade Barbie dresses. This is only a part of the collection, since I am still in the process of making them. But I can not wait to finish all of them before I post them, so here they are. 

Golden Gown - it's actually a two-piece dress. I made the top and skirt separably to make it easier to dress the doll. I got the lacy pattern from MyPicot.com.

 Red two-piece suit - supposed to be a bussines suit, but somehow ended up a bit too....wel, lets just say too revealing.


Red evening gown - this is the first Barbie dress I made. I made it without taking measurements, so it ended up a bit too small for a regular 11,5 inch Barbie doll.






These first four dresses were made with steel crochet hook number 7

 Peachy flower dress - pattern for the skirt again from MyPicot. Crochet hook size 3,5mm/E. 

Sun-kissed Yellow Dress

This is currently my favorite Barbie dress! I even have no more comments to add about it since I feel any further comment on my part would be to much because I am more than bias on this matter :-). Thus I will leave it up to you to judge how pretty it is or how it is not. There is just one more thing I must do and that is to thank my sister for buying this color thread (even if she did buy it for herself and i stole it) that was so beautiful it was in itself an inspiration. 

It was made with crochet hook 3,5/E with sc stitches across the yelow part, and a standart shell motif for the rims.