in which things are finished

If you have a brand new baby girl going by the code name “Little Miss” please look away now.

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Really.

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OK, the coast is either clear or someone doesn’t like surprises

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I love making baby stuff. It’s smallish, cute, and tends to be finished fairly quickly.

Yeah. Right.

I swear I knit this Baby Surprise Jacket at least twice after all the ripping. And it’s not that it’s really that complicated of a pattern. It’s mainly straightforward and it’s just garter stitch. What’s so hard? My complete and total inability to count and keep track of what the #$@% row I’m on at any given time.

Oh well, in the end it’s cute and it’s done. It may need bigger buttons but I’ll leave that decision to the new Mama.

Even given the trials and tribulations I had with this I still want to make the adult BSJ.

There also must be blankets for all new babies.

I love the way this one turned out.  I knew I needed something mostly mindless to take with me when I went up to be with Mom when Dad passed away.  I grabbed four skeins of related-color baby yarn, added a couple of hooks, and drove out.  This is simple sc, ch 1, repeat, turn sc into ch 1 sp, ch 1, repeat for a long, long time.  The color changes are what make it interesting.  I’m betting it would have been easier to do the striping with 5 colors instead of 4.  I’ll have to try it with 5 for the next baby that comes along and test my theory.

This next one is a big square of My So Called Scarf with a crocheted ruffle around the edge.

The rainbow colored big ass skeins of JoAnns Sensations look reallly pretty in the skein but if you look closer (which, of course, I didn’t before I bought it) the color changes are about every 3″-4″.  I tried and tried to come up with a stitch pattern that would look decent and this was the best I could find.  I like the way the colors work in this but since it’s a bit on the fuzzy side I’m betting this won’t hold up well to frequent washings.  I’m going to recommend it as a car blanket.

I had a couple of hats queued for her too but I think I’ll wait until fall to make those since (FREAKIN SNOW in APRIL notwithstanding) I don’t think she’ll need them that much now.

I may still make a rattle with some of the left over bits of the first blanket just because it’s too darn cute.

This is what Simi thinks of me taking one of her toy balls with a bell to make a baby rattle:

I doesn’t matter that I bought a new one specifically for the rattle.  It’s like a 2 year old – what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine and what I think I might want is mine and of course anything that you are doing anything with is mine.