This is getting ridiculous

Actually, I think we passed ridiculous a few weeks ago.

The circular needle plan for TFLW fell through. They broke. My birch circular needles broke. Back to the drawing board and dpns.

Oy. Just oy.

To soothe my fractured nerves I started a small star blanket, it will be doll sized. With my recent luck, it will probably turn out moon shaped and elephant sized, but what the hell.

Surprise, surprise

I frogged those leg warmers again. They shall henceforth be known as TFLW. I remembered I had a pair of 12" size 8 circulars that I made last summer, and that is the newest of many plans for these stupid things. Who knew knitting a damn tube was so difficult?

Had a little retail therapy today, I bought Adorable Crochet for Babies and Toddlers and Simple Knits for Little Cherubs. Never mind the two boxes of crochet and knit patterns my sister sent that I haven't even looked at yet. Just never you mind.

I don't recommend it

But one way to knock out some WIPs is spending a few days at the hospital.

Last Thursday we took the baby in for her 2 week checkup, and she had lost too much weight without gaining it back. The next thing I know, I'm tossing my yarn tote and a book in the car and we are off to the hospital. After many tests and many, many long hours they decided her problem was not eating enough. Hooray for modern medicine, huh?

So, all of this stuff was lounging in the work bag, and is now finished. I can't say it all came out that great, but it came out and it passed the time.

This Perky Puffs hat - it is still a cute hat but it looks not much like the picture that goes with the pattern. I'm ok with that. Apparently I am a small crocheter, everything comes out tinier than planned. Yeah, swatch. I know.



This cute little hat does fit the baby, but she is a very unwilling model, so use your imagination. I made it in blue because white would have looked like a chef's hat, and I would have had an overwhelming compulsion to speak to her in Swedish Chef-ese at all times. That would probably be quite detrimental to her development, nay? Bork bork.



A child's cowboy hat that almost fits my adult mannequin head, but is too small for my 3 year old. Not entirely sure what to make of that.



Finally, got the strap on the sling. It seems short to me, but I can't really tell until the baby is big enough to sit in it. Adding some length wouldn't be too difficult anyway.



The astute reader will note that there are no legwarmers in this finished object fest. I did work on them. My newest plan of attack is knitting them on straight needles, which I find relaxing and easier to interrupt than doing them on dpns. They are the only project underway right now and they will get finished. Right? Right.

If only my newest crochet book hadn't arrived...

Oh dear, the hats

So yes, we have a baby girl in the house now. Somehow this has made me become utterly obsessed with making cute little hats. Like, say, this one.



First I made a white one, but it was a little bit small, so I made the purple one. My model does not care for posing just yet, so I had to sneak the picture while she was asleep. Poor kid doesn't stand a chance with me, does she?



In between hat silliness, I am working on a crochet baby sling for the summer. The pouch part is almost done, then I just need to do the strap. She is too small for it now, but later this summer we will have some fun in it!



This morning I ordered this book Too Cute Crochet for Babies & Toddlers : A Whimsical Collection of Hats, Scarves, Mittens & Booties
by Cynthia Preston - so there is really no end to this baby goofiness in sight.

I'd better find a knitting project soon, or I'll be kicked out of my knitting group, won't I? Eek.

Nothing on the needles!

I don't know when the last time I could say that was! I did get some needles stuck in my arm today, does that count?

I abandoned the knit leg warmers in favor of crocheting them, because I am too impatient and flighty right now. The sweater from crochetme is going ok this time around as well.

Thirty-six hours until this baby is born, I wonder how long it will take to get back into the yarn mode?

Now that's a sweet little sweater

It worked up in just a couple of days and turned out very pretty. Toward the end of the pattern the stitch counts didn't work out, but I suspect that is my error as usual, and I was able to fudge it out pretty well, in my ever so humble opinion. I used the second pattern on this page.



I still want to try that crochetme sweater, so maybe I'll tackle it this morning. There is a sundress waiting to be cut out and sewn on my sewing table, but the couch and crochet hooks sound much more inviting at the moment.