Street Seller

As we live near an indoor wet market, we see some unusual sights some mornings on the way to the kids school. And today was one of those days I just couldn't help but take a quick snapshot or this man on the street trying to sell soft-shelled turtles. What was interesting was his cone-shaped hat which is rather an unusual sight in Shanghai nowadays and a mismatched footwear; needlework winter slippers on one foot and a shoe on the other.

Pixie Hats

Recently, I finished knitting 5 pixie hats for my colleagues. It took me a while to get started with work and kids taking up most of my time. I found a very easy pattern for the hats from craftbits.com. As I did not have the exact yarn specified in the pattern, it took 2 attempts before I got the size right.

For this project, I used 2 strands to knit the pattern. For the edgings, I crocheted a contrasting colour yarn, and used the same yarn colour for the pompoms.