Is it a boy?
Nope!
It's a girl! That's my beautiful daughter in law Jackie, and that baby bump is a girl. At least according to the ultrasound. We are all so excited that another little grandchild will be making her appearance at the end of November. The little pink knitted things have started to pile up. Already completed are two pretty little hats and a pair of booties.Of course, I didn't bring the camera home to take photos, but then I didn't expect to get all three items knit in one day. Here's the beginning of the baby knitting...the booties need the perfect buttons.
Every summer, I knit my "Big Brother" project to assuage the guilt of watching mindless, ridiculous television 3 hours a week following the antics of a group of people locked up in a house all hoping to win $500,000 by being the last person "evicted". Every year, the project has been a shawl of some type, this year it looks like it will be a pink one. I think I shall knit the "Paisley Lace Shawl" by Evelyn Clark from Interweave Knits Spring 2005. I just happen to have two skeins of Jaggerspun Zephyr in a lovely soft pink that will be perfect.
I've knit this particular shawl at least 3 times, and have given away or sold every one of them. And I don't have a single photo of any of them! The first one I knit was in a lavender superwash wool, and I hung it up in the shop as it was still summer and too warm to wear it. One day in late August, a lady was browsing around the shop and expressed an interest in purchasing it. I told it her it really wasn't for sale, and she probably wouldn't want to pay what I felt it was worth. She pressed me for a price, and I doubled the price I had in mind. I really didn't want to sell it.
Well, she said that was a fair price and she took it down from the display and put it on the counter. There it was - gone! I cast on another one in a pink kroy sock yarn, and as soon as I finished it, I gave it to my son for the birth of his second daughter Evelyn. By this time, I really enjoyed knitting the shawl and the pattern was memorized, so number three was knit, blocked and shipped in record time. That one was an order from a customer in Alberta who had seen me working on number two shawl and wanted one for her first grandchild's christening. I think, but can't be sure, that I may have a fourth one "on hold" as I decided to use thicker yarn and have to rework the border pattern numbers. There is a good chance however I have frogged it and reused the yarn. I suppose it's time to go diving behind the couch where all the unfinished projects go to see if it's back there. You know the adage "Out of sight, out of mind"? Trust me, it's true. I am always amazed at how fast the unfinished project stash grows.
It's a girl! That's my beautiful daughter in law Jackie, and that baby bump is a girl. At least according to the ultrasound. We are all so excited that another little grandchild will be making her appearance at the end of November. The little pink knitted things have started to pile up. Already completed are two pretty little hats and a pair of booties.
I like the twisted garter stitch edging on the hat in the right hand side of the photo. Super simple too. You knit 4-6 rows of garter stitch, then on the next row, you knit 5, then twist the knitting by taking the left hand needle all the way around the work and then knit another five. This makes a stretchy, scalloped edge that would work great on socks tool
Every summer, I knit my "Big Brother" project to assuage the guilt of watching mindless, ridiculous television 3 hours a week following the antics of a group of people locked up in a house all hoping to win $500,000 by being the last person "evicted". Every year, the project has been a shawl of some type, this year it looks like it will be a pink one. I think I shall knit the "Paisley Lace Shawl" by Evelyn Clark from Interweave Knits Spring 2005. I just happen to have two skeins of Jaggerspun Zephyr in a lovely soft pink that will be perfect.
I've knit this particular shawl at least 3 times, and have given away or sold every one of them. And I don't have a single photo of any of them! The first one I knit was in a lavender superwash wool, and I hung it up in the shop as it was still summer and too warm to wear it. One day in late August, a lady was browsing around the shop and expressed an interest in purchasing it. I told it her it really wasn't for sale, and she probably wouldn't want to pay what I felt it was worth. She pressed me for a price, and I doubled the price I had in mind. I really didn't want to sell it.
Well, she said that was a fair price and she took it down from the display and put it on the counter. There it was - gone! I cast on another one in a pink kroy sock yarn, and as soon as I finished it, I gave it to my son for the birth of his second daughter Evelyn. By this time, I really enjoyed knitting the shawl and the pattern was memorized, so number three was knit, blocked and shipped in record time. That one was an order from a customer in Alberta who had seen me working on number two shawl and wanted one for her first grandchild's christening. I think, but can't be sure, that I may have a fourth one "on hold" as I decided to use thicker yarn and have to rework the border pattern numbers. There is a good chance however I have frogged it and reused the yarn. I suppose it's time to go diving behind the couch where all the unfinished projects go to see if it's back there. You know the adage "Out of sight, out of mind"? Trust me, it's true. I am always amazed at how fast the unfinished project stash grows.
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