New Patch!

Last night I had ANOTHER pair of my son's pants that needed a patch.   After my super cool monster patch, I decided to do another one.  Only this one is slightly different.  I'm kind of, sort of starting to like doing these patches!

Patches

My 5 year old son burns through jeans like a hefty bag full of rottweilers would.  It's insane.  At his school they are not allowed to wear jeans with holes in them, so this presents a little problem for me.  Either buy new jeans every two weeks or start patching them up. Being the thrifty mom that I am, I started patching.  After patching and re-patching some 10 holes throughout the last couple of months I decided to get a little creative with my patches.  Behold the monster patch!

I just put red fabric behind the hole to patch it, and then added some teeth and eyes.  I think it's pretty snazzy myself.  The boy seemed to like it too.  I guess  I'll be making monster patches from now one.

Hats and Glasses

This is going to be a quick little post so hold onto your skivvies. Lilly got a pair of fake glasses for Easter and wears them constantly! I couldn't help posting this picture because it is just so darn cute! I hope she doesn't get sick of these because chances are this girl going to have to get glass for real in the future.

Also, I crocheted this hat for a friend who wanted it for their newborn baby.  I haven't crocheted in years so I must say I'm pretty proud of this.  Cute huh? Who knew sock monkey hats would become so popular?

Knitting and Eventual Heartbreak

Lilly had been asking me to make her a cute little sweater like her brother's Frog Sweater. I found a sweater pattern by the same lady who made the frog sweater pattern.  It's for a bumble bee, but Lilly decided she wanted pink and purple instead.  So now it's some kind of lovebug, I guess.  Anyways, she picked out this cheapy yarn with sparkles in it, which is good since this story  does not end well, and I started knitting.

A sweater takes me awhile to knit since I only have time at night while I'm watching TV.  That girl just kept on pestering me, asking when it was going to be, was I done, can I finish it today.  So, with all this encouragement I decided to stay up late on Tuesday night and finish it as a surprise. (That's the end of the knitting part, now on to the heartbreak.)

I was so excited to show Lilly her sweater the next morning.  She squealed with glee and put it on. I took her to the mirror to show her how she looked in my knitted masterpiece.  She took one look at herself and said she wanted to take it off, and that she didn't want to wear it.  I didn't cry, I took it in stride and said, "Well, maybe you can wear it as a jacket today.  It's suppose to be a little chilly."  She ran off without replying.  When it was time to go, she told me she didn't want to wear it, and walked out the door to put her shoes on. I think she could tell she hurt my feelings because she came back inside and and told me she loved it and that it was beautiful, she just didn't want to wear it. I told her thanks, and then continued to try not to cry.

I was able to get her to put it on one more time later in the day so I could take these pictures. I think the sweater turned out really, cute, and maybe she will grow to like it. Or maybe not.  I'm sure I'm not the only person who has every knitted something for someone and they didn't like it, but man it kind of sucks.

Here it is in all it's unwanted glory.

I love the antenna. You can kind of see the sparkles in the pink yarn.

Lilly wanted flower buttons.

"can I take it off now"