For Baby

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.