Owls and Butterflies

Been doing some new patterns by request and have come up with a lot... thus lots of pictures today. Life has been kinda dramatic, which feels better than boredom even though things are worse. Good things are happening too, one being my sister came to visit me in Baltimore with her family. Just for the weekend, to bring me my new kitty, and we made it down to Washington DC to see the monuments and museums. They are moving to Arizona in a few weeks and needed someone to take their cat. His name was Danger, but that sounded a little menacing to me, so I renamed him Bucky, which I believe has the opposite effect. Named after William F. Buckley and Buckminster Fuller. I can't explain it, I barely get the reference myself, they are some authors that Chris reads.
 

 

This is my first attempt of a new pattern, the butterfly hat, and took the opportunity of having my niece's little head around to see how it fits. Soooo adorable.

Made one for myself too, which is one of the only hats I have made for myself.

I have also been working on an owl hat. It seems to be the trend this winter, animal hats. At work I see college kids in the store all the time with hats with ears or horns or eyes. I made a black and gray one first, and tried it on my niece too. Too bad I didn't get a picture of that, it was so cute I had to make a purple one for her birthday present. Her birthday was February 28th, and I am starting to realize I am very bad with deadlines for presents arriving on time. I reconcile it my head like it might be nice getting them late, just when you think there are no more for another year, surprise! Bailey probably won't know the difference though.