Lovely young things are a good reason to crochet.

I have booked a stall for the Celebrate festival in Whalley Range at which I will be selling my hats and things. So I am having fun writing up patterns and trying to size things. Hopefully I will get around to putting them on my patterns blog. I would like to get better at writing up patterns, so I can share a little crochet love, and encourage others to make their own lovely things. :-)

Here is the Babe in Hat and Dress. The hat is Paton's 100% cotton DK and is dominated by a split shell stitch, and the dress in RYC Cotton Jeans in Peacock Stitch which I found in a Pauline Turner book. Just made them up, and didn't write them down very well, so will have to try again. Oh well, at least there are nice photos.

The button band isn't perfect, so I will have to sort that out, but it works. And I had the perfect coloured buttons lurking in my sewing box. So all in all, pretty pleased. The Babe's outfit reminds me of the book we have My Mum and Dad Make me Laugh. It's the spots and stripes. :-)