Baby Shower

I’ve been somewhat busy this past week helping plan a baby shower for one of my hubby’s cousins. It’s the first baby between all of his cousins and everyone is uber excited. As usual I gave a knitted gift; the yellow baby blanket that I knit earlier this year. I have also been working on a knit pullover sweater but …

Knitting & Arrested Development

Only three sleeps left until the glorious return of Arrested Development. I am ridiculously excited and can’t wait to see the crazy antics of the Bluth Family. I’ve been trying to catch up with past episodes so I’ve been watching and knitting. Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly), I still manage to laugh out loud in almost every episode. And I …

Swatches

I found this very pretty baby yarn in my stash a few days ago and I’ve been wondering what I could possibly knit with it. It’s Bernat Baby Coordinates Chunky in plushy purple, which doesn’t seem to be available on-line (how long have I had this yarn?). I’ve been trying to come up with/design a pattern; I tried cables, lace (or …

Awwwwwwww

Why is that the most common response when we see something baby related? I was recently helping my sister in law with ideas for a baby shower, and almost all things that were cute and tiny resulted in ‘awwwws’. As much as I wanted to give input, all that I could muster where ‘awwwwwws’. And in actuality it took a lot …