Cindy’s baby hat is done

Cindys baby hat upright, originally uploaded by YarnDork.

Yay. Isn’t it the cutest thing? I was needing something the size of a baby head this afternoon, and was asking Russell, son #3 if any of his toys looked like a baby. He just laughed. I told him I needed something about the size of a baby head to try the hat on to see if I was making it tall enough. He thought for a minute, then I saw the light bulb go on, and he told me to wait a minute. He ran from the room, and came back with…a toy stuffed soccer ball. It was perfect! I asked him how did he ever think to get that? He’s only 4. He said that it was the same shape as a baby head. He is so smart!

 

I wrote out the pattern, and I’ll get it typed in here tomorrow. Tonight, I need to finish that blanket so I can wash it tomorrow, wait a minute, tomorrow’s Thursday, isn’t it? Oh, good grief, I’m a day ahead. I just need to have the blanket done by Thursday night so I can wash it Friday and have it drying Saturday for the shower on Sunday. OK, then, I’ll post the pattern later on tonight. Unless I fall asleep. zzzzzzz

Cindys baby blanket under construction

Cindys baby blanket under construction 1, originally uploaded by YarnDork.

Well, here is how far I am as of yesterday. If you ever need a nice, easy, and quick baby blanket, and if you don’t exactly know how far your yarn is going to go, this is the best knit pattern I’ve found. It’s by Iris Schreier and it’s called Four Squares Baby Blanket. Go look it up on Ravelry. It’s the coolest thing because you start from the 2 opposite corners and work inwards, which I did with the 2 balls of green. Then, no binding off, but using 1/2 of one green square and 1/2 of the other green square, and using the other balls of blue, knit from the center of the square outwards. I found this pattern in my Creative Knitting magazine, the May 2007 issue, and I’ve used it 2 times for baby blankets, and lots of times for other things. It’s a great use for scraps, and it’s an easy pattern to memorize, because every row is the same. There’s no “do this on one row and do something else on the next row” and so on.

Cindy’s baby shower is Sunday, and I think I’m going to be able to finish in plenty of time. I’m still working on her baby hat, I decided to frog it a little. I had done a total of 72 stitches around, and as I was doing the ribbing, the cotton yarn wasn’t drawing in as much as I’d like. So, I frogged it back to the last increase and made it only 64 st around, and I’m starting in on the ribbing again. It shouldn’t take long. It’s just a basic hat, but I’ll post up the pattern on here one of these days, if only for me to make another one someday. I think out of that leftover cottontots, I’m only going to be using that one ball for the hat, which leaves me another ball. I think I may be able to squeeze some little baby socks out of it. If I think about it, I’ll try to get a picture of the entire baby shower present collection before I wrap it up.

Finally, socks on the back burner, but I have to admit, my fingers are getting itchy for some size 2’s.