More Hospital Crafting

My sister asked me to make her daughter a hat, like this white one which is now lost. It's simple enough that I tried winging it without a pattern, but as I crocheted along, I realized that it was too flat - more of a doily than a hat. Aw, crap.


But it was easily adjusted, and here's the finished version, with a bit of a brim for turning up.


I knitted my niece this watermelon hat as well.


The husband was given this bible in the hospital. Since we already have bibles at home - and more, ahem, scholarly versions, like the Jerusalem Bible, and a couple of medieval Greek editions from my time at Johns Hopkins - I gutted this one to make a sturdy, removable sleeve for my paperbacks. A coworker once said that the best way to ensure your privacy on the subway or bus was to read a bible, so I figure this will be the comic-book-in-bible trick.


Here is the inside of the gutted book, with new end papers. To make the end papers, take a longish piece of paper, and fold the short sides inward to make flaps. Then fold the long sides outward, to close the tops and bottoms of the side-flaps. Glue the whole thing into the book cover.


And here it is with manga inside, tucked into the side-flaps, ready for public transportation.


My toy-sewing days are over, but I couldn't resist posting these Alan Dart patterns from UK mag Women's Weekly, which I borrowed from the public library.