My newest adventure

Lately, I have been trying to find something new I can do to calm down at night. I don't live a highly stressful life, but I enjoy a time of rest at the end of the day to help my brain to slow down. Television used to fill this said void, but since we unplugged our cable last year, I have found that I spend faaar too much time surfing the internet for who knows what. Dreaming, facebooking, blog stalking, etc. All that to say, the other day I found my old knitting supplies. If you know anything about knitting, the needles need to be straight and you need two. I had one bent one. Hmm. I vaguely remember allowing B to use them as drum sticks. Perhaps that wasn't the brightest idea. Anyway, I dug a little deeper, and I came across a crochet hook. Ryan bought one 5 years ago with intentions of learning how to make a hat. The string is in the bottom of the box as well. Now I had supplies. I just needed to figure out what to do. Along came youtube. Gotta love it! My first few attempts were complete and utter failures. But hey, I get a learning curve, right?!

First few stitches...before it got bad...

Then I started picking it up. The hats were too long to make, so I adjusted to a goal of an ear muff. I actually got my inspiration from the Eagles game (crazy, right?!?) The girl in front of my had this little number on...yes, I pretended to take a picture of the end zone so I could document my inspiration.

Well, one very long car ride to Connecticut, plus another youtube tutorial, and I have come up with these. I am digging the red one with the flower. Still needs some tweaking, but, not too shabby.

I love that I hate to follow patterns, and this is what occurred

I am NOT digging this one. Kinda looks like a tiara or something. Maybe someone else likes this style, but not me.

Ryan told me he is proud of me, and really, that is all that matters to me:)

Wait, what's that, my crochet hook is calling......