Hat and Bootee Set for Newborn

Ta da!

A Small Bundle

Sent to a friend in the UK:



The cable hat pattern is the one from Canadian Living, first featured here..

Baby Shower Part II

Here is the hat and bootee set (the hat was a free Bernat pattern):







Frodo inspecting my handiwork:



Frodo inspecting the Fluffy Hat:



Upsidedown:

Baby Shower Part I

I've finally got a complete set!

Here are the two blankets I knit for my expecting sister-in-law:

Norwegian Wool blanket with cable stripe:



Close-up:



Baby Blanket with Hood (pattern from the Lion Brand Yarn website):

Extra Large Kimono

I've dropped the diamond lace pattern again, as I've just learned that I have less than two weeks to knit a gift for another mother-to-be!
After much searching, I settled on a kimono pattern from Knitting Daily, and hope to put up photos soon. Since I never pay attention to gauge or resize patterns properly, I've gone ahead and started the kimono (which calls for 3.4 mm needles) on 9 mm needles, in order to finish quickly and use less wool (as I only have two skeins of 100% wool from Turkey that I'd like to use, and the pattern calls for 3!).
So far so good - I've got the body and sleeves done, and might have just enough wool for the finishing. (Would that I could sew properly...) The kimono is huge! Yet will hopefully be quite snuggly once the baby is grown and winter comes...

Progress is Slow

Mainly because I can't sew very well. I've finished the Diamond Lace sweater, and started on the cap. Mittens and bootees to come!

At the same time, I've begun work on a five-hour baby sweater - I'm about an hour in and getting slightly discouraged because there are a few errors in the pattern. However, I've found blog references to it here and here, which helpfully offer photos.

Summer is almost here and the babies are due at the end of the season, so I've got to get cracking!

Diamond Lace Set In Progress

Helen and I are knitting a surprise gift for a colleague who's having twins - one boy and one girl! She's doing the blue half of the set, and I'm doing the yellow half. So far we've done the body of the sweaters and started on the sleeves.

Here's the body:



The set also includes mittens, bootees and a hat. Here's a closeup of the diamonds:

A Gorgeous Afghan, by Helen

Isn't it lovely? I wish I could knit nothing but blankets, most of the time...

What I've Been Busy With...

Another baby project - a top secret one, for a colleague at work who's having twins! but doesn't know that Helen and I are busy knitting for her...

The set comes from an old Red Heart pattern book (from the '70s? '60s? No bar code, ISBN or date!) and includes a sacque, a cap, mittens and bootees, all with a diamond lace pattern.

I'll try to post an in-progress photo by the weekend.

Sweaters!

Hope everyone's busy doing their crossword puzzles!

Meanwhile, here are some sweaters:

The alpaca wool sweater I finally finished (see Sam's love fest with the project in progress at the bottom of this blog):







Charlie, modelling the sweater that Helen knit for him:



Chris, who graciously did not require having his head cropped off, modelling the sweater that Helen knit for him: