I am/have been working on a few
knitting projects for MaryRose before she is born. I decided to go
with purple instead of pink yarn since Ella is so into pink. I felt
there should be some other colors in our household! Also I didn't
know how to knit when Ella was born, and she has requested I make her
a “better late than never” baby blanket after I am done with
MaryRose's and that it be made with pink and green squares. It is
sort of funny though, since I plan on calling MaryRose Rosie for
short, pinks would have been more appropriate for her. Oh well, who
knows what she will like anyway, maybe I will be knitting her orange
or brown things in a couple of years.
Here is a little hat I finished and an
almost finished baby blanket.
The baby blanket story is a little
silly. I started knitting a baby blanket with these size squares over
a year ago when one of Andrew's nephews was born. I was using three
different blues at the time, but the project sort of stalled out at
some point. When I found out I was pregnant I decided to finish it
for my baby, and I was determined it wouldn't matter to me if I had
an all blue blanket and it turned out I was having a girl. I am much
too modern and open minded for that. Uh huh.
Well of course she did end up being a
girl, and I found out right after I finished up all the squares. But
then I thought maybe those two dark blue patches would look better as
a purple, just to lighten it up a little. After all I had months left
before she was due anyway! And it did look better, but still... it
might look even better if I switched out the four medium blue patches
for some white. Then it would be such a light looking blanket,
perfect for a new baby. And besides, I still had six light blue
squares left, which was half the blanket. So then I put it all down
next to each other. But that light blue just did not match the
purple. Hmmm, maybe another shade of purple instead? So now here I
am, three weeks before my due date, frantically trying to finish this
purple and white blanket. Hopefully I will find another little baby
to give my blue blanket to!
By the way I got both the pattern for
the hat(Garter Stitch) and blankets(Patchwork) from Knitting For Baby
by Melanie Falick and Kristen Nicholas. It is such a great book to
learn to knit by, I couldn't recommend it more. Elanor's blanket is
going to be the Harlequin that starts on the same page as the
Patchwork.
