Showing posts with label baby shrug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby shrug. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

A little of this and that ...

Check out this yawn! Ethan is home and doing well. He's up to 6lbs 7oz., and everyone is pleased with his progress. Grandma got in some 'cuddle time' while everyone else cleaned up after I cooked Thanksgiving Dinner. I even got to change a couple of diapers!

A new hat for Ethan ... started out as Alison's bell bottoms, but I realized my gauge was out so I turned one of the legs into a hat instead. I used Lion Brand's cotton ease for the first time and am very impressed! It doesn't split like a lot of other cotton yarns and is very soft and easy to work with. I'll definitely use it again.

This is the Baby Shrug pattern from the 'One Skein' pattern book. This one turned out intentionally smaller as the Lion Brand yarn is finer than the one called for. This was OK by me as Ethan's so thin and tiny that it fits fine now and will last him through his first month.

Here's the set as it's blocking on the bathroom counter ... the angle is a little 'off', making the one sleeve look much wider than the other ... in reality, it's not!

I'm about 3/4's the way through the edging for the baby pinwheel blanket. I was smart to leave a whole ball for the edging as it looks like I will likely use all of it. Now I need to finish knitting the edge, then get the edge sewn on and the blanket blocked before the baby shower on Sunday!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Baby Shrug and Bump Update

As seen above, I'm in the process of knitting the Baby Shrug from One Skein, by Leigh Radford, in a yummy shade of my current favorite 'green', made by Phildar and called 'Aviso' (purchased for a 'song' at the LYS closeout previously mentioned here). It's a cotton/acrylic blend, very similar to my much loved Rowan All Season's Cotton (RASC). It called for a provisional cast on, and as I was deliberating over having a contrasting border (the rib border goes all the way around the bottom, front and neck edges) I used a creamy colour of RASC to see if I liked it together. Still haven't decided .. care to weigh in? Note: I'll be making a hat to match, so the border would also surround the bottom of the hat.

Below is Kala, at the 20 week mark (over 1/2 way there!) on Mother's day. How cute is that bump?!