Baby Knitting

So my sister has had her baby and we finally know it's a Girl! yay! So I immediately knitted her up a few girly things and she is only a couple weeks old. Of course before she was born I knitted her a nice gender neutral Big Bad Baby blankie from Stitch and Bitch. I used blue sky alpacas organic cotton in the color sand.
 

Next I used the  left overs to knit the baby bolero from  the book One Skein for her. This was a fun project because I learned and  practiced some new skills. My first set in sleeves ever! Practiced and I think perfected the mattress stitch. And now I feel ready to tackle a bigger sweater. It all wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Of course all babies must get the One Peice Kimono from Mason Dixon Knitting.


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And a matching hat



I also made the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road booties with the same yarn but they fall off right now because her ankles are a lot smaller than the pattern has you make them. So I improved on them for some shoes to match her easter dress. I left off the T strap and used a ribbon to tie them on like little mary janes everyone at Easter Lunch thought they were soooo cute.



I haven't gotten so many comments and favorites for a picture on flickr on something in a really long time, but for some reason I have gotten no response on Ravelry... Interesting. Maybe because it's such a bad picture.

My sister took the pictures of the baby with her nice camera, I took the pictures of the shoes with a video camera so getting the lighting right is hard.
Camera news! If you have been reading the blog you may have noticed me mention my camera being broken and my struggle with getting it fixed. Well my husband with his powers of persuasion finally got Sears to pay to have the camera fixed because we paid for and extended warranty and they were trying to claim the repair wasn't covered but it is now! So woohoo. When I checked the Nikon website last night it said the camera was in the shop so it should ship to me soon. Silly repair just the little latch to hold the battery in broke off! $109.oo bucks to fix it! Ridiculous! Oh well it's on Sears's book now. I can't wait to get my camera back I love love love my camera it is a wonderful and magical camera!
So long for now. More knitting to come. I've been a busy little knitting bee.

Happy Easter!

It's not Easter without a Peep!

Jacobean Finshed Object

I finished the socks for Sock Knitters Pentathlon 2008. The pattern is called Jacobean and it's the first sock of the Pentathlon. There is supposed to be a nice prize for the gold silver and bronze medalists. They add up the scores first place second place and so forth but there were people finished the first day so after that I took my time and decided it would be fun just to participate.

This was my first magic loop sock, I really liked it, it took a little getting used to but since the entire pattern was only on the front side of the sock it was really simple even though there was a chart I was able to read my knitting by the second repeat that I rarely had to look at the chart.
This was also my first short row heal and I really like the simplicity of it. Heal flaps? No way! I wear my socks with Crocs so I don't need to worry about wearing out the back of the heal.
And this was my first toe up sock and I used the Magic cast on and boy oh boy was that easy! I watched a magic cast on video on youtube by Cat Bordhi and she really made it clear how to do it. There are many wonderful videos for knitting instruction on youtube these days I recommend it for all your knitting woes.

I knit these with knitpicks fingering weight sock yarn in the bare color because I was planning on dyeing up some more sock yarn for fun and the instructions for the socks said they would look good in a solid color so I figured I'd just dye them later... I used the new 47 inch knit picks fixed nickle plated circulars in size US 1.5 and enjoyed how light and flexible the needles were. I also enjoy their harmony wood needles but they don't come in such a long cable yet.

And now the pics!