Easy baby booties

While he napped today, I made some cute little baby booties from scraps that I had left in my stash. I found the pattern over at www.sascha-lovetoknit.blogspot.com
I made them in just over an hour.

Go and check out her blog and have a go too!

The flower headband is tricky!

The pattern is simple, but it seems that I can't watch TV and remember what row of the pattern repeat I was on. That's bad as there are only 9 stitches and 4 rows, so not that much to remember! I blame it on my sleep deprived and addled brain. 

I have completed the band, but I have gone wrong and it resembles a wonky snake, so it just won't look right on the head.

I've decided to scrap it and start again. This time I'm going to pay attention!!!!

Basket weave heavy weight blanket

I've finished it! It's bright, heavy and full of texture. Just what I wanted. The baby seems to love it too. It came together very quickly and took me about two hours a night over a week. It'll look great in the nursery and can also double as a large play-mat on the floor.

It measures 1.3 meters squared so it's the largest piece I have every completed. I must admit, I liked working with the chunky wool and seeing it come together so very quickly. When you have limited time and energy for your craft, it was a very rewarding project indeed.

I used Patons Big Fab wool on a 10 inch needle. I chose a super bright Neon Green to make it fun and colourful, but they do sell calmer more sedate and natural colours.

If you'd like the pattern, leave me a comment :-)

My baby's favourite blanket

It's knitted using my stash of wool. I had no set plan about how I was going to structure the stripes, I just knitted.

I knitted it diagonally starting with just 5 stitches and increasing until I got the blanket to the right sort of size (the width x 2 would equal the size that the blanket ended up becoming).

He loves it and it pretty much goes everywhere with him.
 

If anyone wants the pattern, leave me a comment.
 

While he slept today

While my 3 month old slept today, I continued to work in a really heavy weight blanket. I plan to use it in his cotbed as the nights are so cold at the moment. I'm sure he wakes due to being cold sometimes.

 

It's a simple basket weave knitted on 10 inch needles.

 

I'll blog my pattern when I've finished it.