Presto Starto

I'm making Presto Changos. Designed by our very own, wonderful Valerie.

More details and pictures on my blog.

1st Trimester Prize! Finally!

Hello All! I've missed you! It's so fun to come back and see the beautiful work! I've had my hands full (literally) with my new little baby boy, but he is so worth it! Here he is in the award-winning sweater that Valerie made for him!



So, I am two months late doing the drawing for the 1st trimester prize of a piddleloop travel case. I put all of your names in a nice plastic container that I was returning to Val. (She brought me curry! Yum!) My 3-year-old drew out a name and....drumroll please...Jean won! Yeah Jean!!! Now I just need you to go visit the Piddleloop Store and pick out your pattern. Congratulations!!!

Two small steps back

I had wanted to finally post about the baby sweater I've been working on for my friends Sarah and Shawn, whose baby Max was born just about 2 weeks ago.

I didn't want it to be this:



This might seem fine, but it's for a baby. Babies aren't quite the same as adults. Their bodies are still developing, and they don't quite know what to do with their hands. Sleeves are better if they stay out of the way a little, and rolling them up is not the look I was going for. The post-its for scale, if that helps.

The thing is, the body has been done for awhile now. I have had trouble with the sleeves because after the first one, I thought they wouldn't be wide enough. But this is worse, in a way, because there's no quick fix.

Well, I did think about just *cutting* the sleeves and picking up the stitches for the cuff, but I want this to be a nice sweater, not a sloppy hack job.

The sleeves are now converted to this:


I have some more knitting to do. Fortunately, it's fewer rows. Ah, there's a bright side if you look hard enough.

Hat, booties and bib

Hi! Here are my last knitted accessories for babies. The first one is for my cousin's daughter, and the others are for me (I don't like pastel colours for babies).
Pattern: Petal Bib (One Skein, Leigh Radford)
Yarn: Catania coloway 0158 (Schachenmayr)
Pattern (free): Feather and Fan Baby Bonnet (Larissa Brown de Stitch Marker)
Yarn: Wool Cotton colorway 964 Still (Rowan) - 1 ball

Pattern: Angora Baby Booties (Last Minute Knitted Gifts, Joelle Hoverson)
Yarn: Impérial Infeutrable colorway Pompei (Bouton d'Or)

little surprise, fun quiz

Hello everyone! I've been rather quiet on this KAL and it's time for me to do better. Do you all remember when I asked if anyone would like a little gifty for a Random Event back in March? (I think it was March...) Anyway, I actually got the little gifties made and I want to send them out to you. If you've sent me your address already, you don't need to do it again--I still have them (except for Kim who moved). But if any of you other lovely ladies would like to send me your address, I'll be mailing things out on Thursday. Lillian had this fun quiz on her blog--I've grabbed it and I present for your pleasure: What Kind of Yarn Are You? Me? I'm merino wool, but I already knew that by looking in my stash closet. :)

What kind of yarn are you?

You are Merino Wool.You are very easygoing and sweet. People like to keep you close because you are so softhearted. You love to be comfortable and warm from your head to your toes.
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I haven't actually done any knitting on my Pea Pod yet. I got side tracked with what I'll call the "String Bean" baby sweater that I was making and the Presto Chango pattern that I sent to Jimmy Beans Wool for their pattern contest. If any of you haven't yet seen it, here it is. You can get the pattern on the Jimmy Beans website, if you'd like.


I tried it on my PeeWee just for fun, but I made it for Kristen's new sweet baby boy. I'm currently working on another one in size 24 months that should fit me girl a little better.

Finished Pea Pod for my Sweet Pea!

I finally got around to the finishing! It fits great and feels wonderful on her this cool Minnesota May evening.

Now I just need to make some booties to match, I'm not sure about the hat... I'm just happy to have another finished object! Yay!

Next I should finish her next striped hoodie...

Happy knitting,

ali

More baby gifts

A friend of mine got twins! A boy and a girl, so here are the gifts I made for them:

Pattern: Baby Kimono (Kristin Spurkland for Interweave Knits Winter 2005)
Yarn: Tourbillons colorway 97 (Phildar) - 3 balls

Pattern: Children's Cotton Hat (Last Minute Knitted Gifts, Joelle Hoverson)
Yarn: Cotonature colorway Lichen (Bergère de France) - 1 ball

I need to find more ideas, I have so much gifts to knit :-)

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