Last Week of Summer

Alex is excited to get into the great outdoors - we are want to soak up all of the Summer we have left!


Properly modeling his Itty-Bitty Boo cardigan...


Admiring our front yard garden before our walk...hubby worked hard on this!


Autumn is peeking around the corner...

Capture the Moment

This is what I am trying to do during my maternity leave: soak it in and be fully present. Here is Alex right now:

Labor Day

Sunrise at the cabin up north over Labor Day weekend...


Alden (wearing his Wonderful Wallaby) had fun playing "Captain" with Greg...


Alex's (wearing the Itty-Bitty Boo cardigan) first boat rise! He loved (most) of it, as was evidenced by his first honest-to-goodness smile ever (at 5 weeks and 4 days old for future reference!).


Sunrise and the island...


Alex spent a lot of time snuggling with Papa Denny...


Alden and his cousin playing near the lake...


Alden is practicing his kayaking skills...


...on land!

 

Baby, baby, baby!

Finally getting to updates on my last two projects! Interestingly, I was not motivated to do much knitting during my six weeks of bedrest. I really only got back to it during the last couple of weeks. I think my lack of enthusiasm was due to dilemmas with both projects.

This blanket I call the "Sunshine Baby Blanket" the pattern is the Pinwheel Baby Blanket. I was hoping to have enough of my Dream in Color Classy yarn to do the "sun ray" border, but I came up short. I finally decided to use some Natura Sensational yarn from my stash. I'm actually very pleased with the result!



The Ribbed Baby Jacket was an easy and fun knit. But, once again I ran out of stash yarn and had to stop short of finishing the pattern. So the jacket does not fully close, thus is more of a cardigan. It is OK, but I would have liked to have more closure! The color is also off in this picture for some reason. It is actually more green.



I am done with baby knitting for the time being. I am really excited about the Noro Scarf I am knitting for hubby! One Raveler described knitting it like being on crack, and she's right - watching the beautiful color changes is totally addicting. And hubby likes it! Pictures to come... I will have to make more of these...

Oh, Baby!

Long time - no post. I have been busy making baby things for my baby-in-the-making!

My current project: Pinwheel baby blanket




A cardigan for this Fall/Winter: Baby Sophisticate




And a pattern that I like to call: "Itty-Bitty Boo"



I wish I had the energy to really discuss these projects. Just not enough hours in the day. I hope I can keep up this blog - but it doesn't look promising. I am still posting on Ravelry, and that might have to do for the time being.

First Weaving

My resolution for last year's New Year was to learn weaving, since my Mom gave a loom last Christmas. This is what I have been working on for the past few months. Back in September, I participated in a small group workshop that was a sort of intro to weaving. I decided to make a scarf for my Mom's Christmas present. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of choosing a yarn that was too thick, and frizzed out too easily. So it was a terrible chore to weave with the yarn. It is fine to choose a thicker yarn for the weft, but the warp must be thin and manageable. Lesson learned.










The finished product, only a mother could love. She might use it as a table runner. Or hang it on her fridge.

Wonderful Wallaby

Just had to post a not-so-perfect-pic of Alden's Wallaby. He's worn it for many cool summer evenings, but I never have the camera with me. I will be sure to have him model it for me this Fall. I really enjoyed making this. It is the largest (successful) sweater I have made to date. I made it to fit a size 4, so that he can get a lot of use out of it over the next couple years. I'll post more on this later...