Baby Steps

The new mommy has decided on some fabric colors and patterns, so I'm starting to make the crib skirt. This is the first panel.  So far...so good!  I'm worried about getting the chevron patterns to line up across the pleat.  It seems easy so far, which makes me wonder what I might be leaving out.

I just need to make two long panels and two short panels then attach them to a middle piece that fits until the mattress.  

No idea if the baby is a B or a G, but these colors are neutral and cheerful for either gender. Love it!!!  After the skirt is finished, I'm going to tackle some bumpers.  That will be quite a project!  I would like to get everything finished to take with us when we visit Minnesota at Christmas.

Hideous Hat

This is a monstrosity, but I love the new stitch I learned.  It's call the basket weave stitch.  It's used a lot on blankets and, apparently, on hats.  I'm not sure what I'll use the stitch for next, but I know it won't be on this horrible hat.  Ugh.

The stitch is made on Row 1 with a yarn over, slipped stitch, knit one, yarn over, then pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch and the 2nd yarn over.  On Row 2, you drop the slipped stitch off the needle, then knit everything else.  

That part was fun.  Now to find a decent project to use it on.

There's a Nip in the Air

We're headed for winter, no doubt about that.  Temperatures are expected to drop into the 40s by the weekend.  No better time than nowto bring back the flowered headband/earwarmer pattern and get busy.  A teacher requested one for her daughter (also one of my students), so I was happy to give it a try.  Favorite colors for this adorable 2nd grader?  PINK and PURPLE, of course!

I had just enough yarn in my knitting stash to whip up a cute earwarmer in about 45 minutes.  I'm not sure if I got the length correct, but that can easily be modified.  I kinda like the three colored flower accessory!  Let's hope she does, too!

Here's one for her little sister, too.  The button says "Girl Power!"  So true!!!

Chevron Pattern Baby Blanket

I've shown the color pallet and and the blanket pattern in other posts (gray, green, and yellow), but here is the finished baby blanket for a friend at school.  Yes, there's a lot of that going around our school!  Two pregnancies - both due in December!

This is for a new little girl whose Mommy loves pink and green.