5 posts tagged “knitting”

Now that I'm home all the time I've been catching up on the things I like to do the best - making stuff.  I have been playing around with my new camera, organizing, and knitting up a storm, especially now that my feet get so swollen I can't bend my toes (knitting is easy to do whilst your feet are up higher than your heart!).  So I'm taking time today to show off some of my newest creations for le bebe.

Dishcloth

Sweaterfront

Sweaterback

I used Lionbrand Microspun yarn, which is 100% acrylic but super slick and smooth.  It really feels wonderful.  In fact, I bought this yarn last year before I was married, way before I thought I would be pregnant, just because it felt so awesome at the store.  It was kind of tricky to work with; if you're familiar with embroidery floss then you understand how loosely this yarn is twisted together.  But I pushed through it and now I have a cute, lightweight, kimono-style sweater for Hazel in a gorgeous color.  I love more adult colors on babies; who says all their stuff has to be ugly neon or pastel??

I have also been experimenting with stenciling onto clothing.  I realized after doing these four that I've been using parchment paper, which is not the same as freezer paper, and infinitely more difficult since parchment curls up and freezer paper sticks to clothing a bit when you iron it.  I can't even blame that on preggo brain!  So here are my slightly smeared baby onesies (with more to come after a trip to the store for freezer paper!).

Onesies01

Onesies02

And this is a sneak preview of a super secret project I'm working on for someone else (you know I can't keep it totally a secret!!!)...

Supersecretproject

Like most knitters I've got yarn in my stash that I bought because it was cheap, or I loved it, but had no idea what to do with it.  I had four skeins or so, two being a black and white variegated and the others being electric blue and black variegated.  I've been wanting to use it, so when I found this pattern for a circular baby blanket I thought this is great!  I can make this blanket & give it to this couple I know who's having a baby boy right around when I am.  

I have two new projects to show off!!   The first one is another bib, boy-colored, since I'm pretty sure that's what I'm having:

Blue Bib

Blue Bib close-up

Here's the whole thing, in its blue & yellow glory.  This one is much better than the first one I made as far as size goes.  It's also a little cuter with those button accessories!









And this next project just might be the weirdest, kitschiest thing I have ever made.  Ever.

Blanket Buddy

Blanket Buddy Face

This is called a blanket buddy.
I guess it should be called a bunny blanket buddy, since that's what it's supposed to be.  It's about a foot both ways, and is basically a knitted diamond with a bunny face.  I made it with this really thick, soft black yarn I had laying around, and the face I stitched on with fuzzy white yarn. 

I don't know, I love it but I realize it's creepy.  Creepy in that I-found-a-scary-old-toy-in-the-attic way.  But pretty funny. 

In the past shephard's pie or a sausage & bagel breakfast

Watermelon

In other news, the gorgeous rattle I ordered came in yesterday!  It is so adorable and so so sweet.  I have also made another bib, and while I'm still working on the cardigan, I'm knitting a new thing called a blanket buddy.  Yeah it's a weird name, but I'll post a photo when I'm done, and it will all make sense then.

Until then I'm going to take a quick bath so I can get another one of those delicious slushies.

Time is dragging its ass!!

For some reason this month has felt like forever.  I know I'm starting to grow a little; my center of gravity is shifting, which kind of hurts my back a bit, and Amos even said that I look rounder around there.  So far I have only gained about 4 to 8 pounds since conception (I'm not exactly sure what I weighed then).  That is pretty good for this far.  I have been eating like bananas, whatever I want (which has so far been mostly healthy things, with an occasional sweet or basket of nachos thrown in), but I've found that I can't have as much per meal that I used to.  I never finish my plate except at breakfast, when I'm eating off a salad plate.  Not that I'm complaining!  <3

Itty-Bitty Nursery

Susan B. Anderson

On a sweeter note, I started knitting baby things.  I got a baby pattern book called Itty Bitty Nursery that has some seriously ADORABLE things in it.  A lot of that stuff is clearly what other people would knit to give as gifts, using really expensive yarn that's silk or alpaca (which is to yarn what Blue Mountain is to coffee).  I will probably adapt some of the patterns to use more washable yarn, but I am definitely making some of it because it is just too cute not to make!

The one project I've finished is a simple bib. This is made from cotton yarn, totally washable, and is fairly huge for a bib, probably spanning arm to arm until the baby is like 12 months old.  I didn't have a pattern; I mean, what's to a bib really?  It's a square with one string that fastens somehow, right?  So here's my gender-nuetral bib, yellow and green and white again (it's still cute though).

Green Bib

This only took about 3 hours.  I am definitely going to be spending lots of time making more of these, as the total cost was probably under $1 for the yarn and button (both bought in bigger packs, both only a fraction of the total and thereby a fraction of the cost).  These would be a good baby gift as well -- handmade but practical.