While life continues to be crazy, I seem to have fallen off the creative-wagon. However, never to be defeated, here I am today with not one but two cute little projects to show you. How, might you ask, can this be? Um, well, to be honest, these are things that I made quite a while ago but never got around to photographing. Now that you know my secrets, may as well get along to the good stuff.
Firstly, I bring you a little piece I like to call my Peony Sweater Dress!
(in actuality, it's the sweater from the
Sweetie-Pie Kit)
It was something I had my eye on ever since I first stumbled across it on
Pickles website. They do this fantastic thing where they offer one free version of their patterns, and it just so happened that this was available for a 6 month old, and I knew it was meant to be.
Ok, so while I was knitting it up and stumbling over the fisherman's rib, I was a little less certain, but eventually I opened my eyes and really read the pattern (for any interested parties, you have to alternate between knit one, knit one below and purl, knit one below when knitting it in a round, silly me) and BAM, there I had a lovely little sweater dress.
Man, that's one cute baby, eh?
Oh, and to take you even farther back in time, back to the days when I didn't even know if I was having a little baby girl or a little baby boy, behold, the Stripey Baby Lap Blanket!
Now, to anyone wanting to knit up a fast simple and well loved gift, I highly recommend one of these. A lady at our church gave us one for Bugaboo when he was born, and it was the most useful thing. The trick is, that it's the right size to cover a baby's lap when their in the car seat or stroller. It may seem small, but you see, if it's any bigger and covers their hands, they pull it up over their face (or at least my little monsters do) or you have to fold it in half, which gets bulky. Oh, or sometimes it dangles over the sides (this is again, if it's too big) and then gets caught in stroller wheels or car doors, or drags on the ground and gets dirty... really I think you can see my point here.
Project-wise it's a breeze. I don't really remember the dimensions; I just kind of cast on enough stitches to make it look about right, and then garter stitched away until it was the size I wanted. Couldn't be simpler.
Not bad eh?
Oh, and if you promise not to tell anyone on
ravelry, the glow-bug is actually covering a tiny little hole where I dropped a stitch. tsk tsk.
Alright then, now maybe I can get something new put together. Maybe.
