Free-For-All Friday: Baby Elf Hat

I'm totally making this.  It's ridiculously adorable.  I've been in search of some really cute baby hat patterns lately, trying to find something to make for my co-workers baby.  I'm thinking this one will do just the trick!

I found this pattern here, and I'm excited to not only make it, but leave her a little blog love if it comes out 1/2 as cute as this photo shows!

I'm off to find some yarn to whip this up, see you all on Monday!

Free-For-All Friday: Anchor Applique

I'm in search of a crochet applique pattern for an anchor.  A co-worker of mine divulged yesterday that they were expecting a gender-to-remain-unknown bundle of joy next winter, so I wanted to whip up an adorable crocheted baby hat for them, with a little anchor on it, since the anchor is, well, let's say it's kind of their thing. 

In my stumbling around to find a pattern, I did come across this site, Monster Crochet that had the most adorable crochet bag that I could see making and gifting to one of my fellow Cape Cod loving relatives.  So during this brief lunch hour (I'm at work on a Friday, which I haven't done since Finn was born *insert super whine-y face and worlds smallest violin, etc. etc. etc) I have been re-bitten (pretty sure that's not even a word) by the yarn bug, and even though I'm neck-deep in scrapbooking & paper crafting projects, I have a feeling I may be busting out the crochet hooks in the near future and whipping something soft and snuggly. 

I've got a productive scrappy weekend ahead of me, I'm going to a crop tonight and all day tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have some fun things to post next week to share!