Today At The Shop

I've just introduced a small line of baby hats.  I swear, this baby kick is nearing it's end, but these projects are immensely enjoyable.  The small nature of babies lend themselves great to quick and very satisfying projects.

     

The knitted pom pom baby hats are an adorable gift idea for any moms-to-be in your life.  They are intended to be used by newborns and small infants.  I recently created some for our good friends in order to keep their future daughter's head warm on the way home from the hospital.

These hats come in fresh spring colors and are available now at my Etsy Shop.

Enjoy!

Duckies In A Row

 Continuing on my recent theme of knitting for babies. For my husband's best man's daughter (due in less than 2 weeks!), I made this duckie sweater.  I have to admit, I was looking for something that could, ahem, show off my talents on this one. 

Rough & Tumble Baby Blankets Tutorial

Last year our cousins started having babies.  The first of which (shown above) just reach his first birthday a couple weeks ago.  I originally was going to tackle the challenge of the first baby shower I was ever invited to by making a sweater - possibly something like the Baby Sophisticate that I later made for my husband's cousin.

When I suggested this, I was overruled.  Babies grow out of sweaters, I was told, but blankies are forever.  One of the boy's aunts still has her baby blanket even now as a graduate student.  She insisted that every child needs one.  And I'm sure Linus agrees.

After the jump, I'll do a quick walk through of the Rough & Tumble Baby Blanket pattern I created for this first blanket.  It includes some information on how to customize it for your own preferences  like I did with the other blankets that followed in the next year.  This way you can continue to make unique baby blankets for all the new little ones in your life.