Quick update

Time is just flying!  I thought I'd do a quick update since it's been a month.  I'm still slowly working on my baby blanket, but I took a quick break from it to do a sweater and hat.  (The sweater is Kelly's Sweater from Bella Bambina, and the hat is the Basic Baby Hat pattern from Manner's Crochet and Craft.)   It's basically the same as the picture to the left, except when I'm finished, I'll use different buttons, since I know the baby is going to be a boy.  I bought a bunch of buttons while visiting my mom during the holidays.  I hope to have both projects finished soon, and I will post pictures then.

Keeping busy...

We closed on our house a month ago today.  It's hard to believe it's been a whole month!  We moved in a few days before Christmas, and it's been a little hectic ever since.  We've had two major snowstorms already, and we went to visit my family in PA for a few days around New Year's.

I have been working on my latest baby blanket project, but since I'm slowly unpacking, I'm really just doing that on my work breaks for now.  I'm about 60% done, and I'll try to post a picture of it soon.

The picture I am posting tonight is from Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes.  We took our nieces last weekend, and they really enjoyed it.  (I enjoyed it too, but I think my husband was a little bored.  *g*)  This is one of the better pictures, during "Be Our Guest."  Beauty didn't skate with the Beast (as the human prince) until the end, which I thought was a little lame.  There were some cooler scenes, like the ice catching fire during the Sleeping Beauty sequence.

Wrist Warmers

It's been a hectic few weeks.  We're waiting for a closing date for our house, which should be in the next week or so.  I've been sorting and packing like crazy.  There's still so much to do, especially since it's so close to the holidays.

I have been keeping up with my baby blanket project, though.  I'm a little less than halfway done.  I'll post a picture of that soon.  However, it's been so cold out lately, and my hands get so cold when I'm surfing the internet.  I made my mom some wrist warmers last year for Christmas, so I was thinking of making myself a pair, but...I found a pair of them when I was searching my stash box for some yarn to use!  I'm wearing them now.  I got the pattern for these Wooly Wrist Warmers  from Crochet Pattern Central.  They were super easy to make.  It's really just a double crocheted square that's slip stitched together.  So far, they're keeping my hands nice and warm.

New blanket

My friend Sarah is having another boy.  I decided to make the new baby's blanket the same pattern as Ben's, just in a different color.  I chose Red Heart's Soft Baby Steps in Blue Earth.  I really like this yarn.  It's so nice and soft.  I'm using the Lacey Baby Blanket pattern I found on my Lion Brand Babysoft yarn skein, and it looks totally different from the last two blankets I made of the same pattern.

I think I over-bought the yarn, because I wanted to make sure I had all the same dye lot.  I can always make the baby a matching sweater and hat if that's the case.  :-)

I'll post another picture as I get further along.

It's been too long...

I haven't updated in awhile, but we've been busy house-hunting...and packing.  We didn't intend on buying a house right now, but it just kind of snowballed since we looked at a house close to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.  This is a picture of part of the backyard.  We have a gazebo and a solar green house!  How cool is that?!  Hopefully we'll be in the house before Christmas.

My friend Sarah is pregnant with her second baby, and she'll find out the sex of the baby this week.  So in between packing and the move, I'll have to find time to crochet a baby blanket.  I'll post a picture here as soon as I find the right yarn for my project and get it started...hopefully in the next week or so.

It's a girl!

My friend Melissa had her baby on September 15, 2010.  Of course, I had to dig out a girly color to make a dress for her as soon as I got the news.  I made Bella Bambina's Azalea Dress in Snuggly Wuggly pink yarn.  I love the buttons I used on it.  I need to find more...I think I bought them in Joanne's.

I made a matching hat as well.  I used Manner's Basic Baby Hat pattern.  It's super easy and quick to make, and it naturally folds up at the bottom.

Melissa's sister sent me a picture of the baby in my outfit that night.  She looked so cute!  (Of course, she looked cute before that. *g*)

I'm working on another dress in purple in a different pattern.  I'll post it when I'm finished.  I'm about halfway done, but I took today off.  Hopefully I can get it done this weekend.

Baby Shower

I'm still slowly working on my yellow blanket, but I realized that I forgot to post the pictures of what I made for my friend Melissa's shower.  I think I posted all of these at some point, but I'll post them all here tonight.  I love this slanted shell pattern for the blanket.  I really want to make another one soon.  I decided not to crochet a border around this one, but I may try a border with my next one.

Originally I made a ruffled sweater pattern to match the blanket, but Melissa didn't want to know the sex of her baby, and a ruffled sweater might be a little feminine for a boy.  I used the Snuggly Wuggly yarn for this sweater.  It might have been my first project with the yarn.  I liked the yarn so much that I've been using it for most of my baby sweaters.  I loved the little yellow buttons I found, and I wish I could remember where I got them.  Hopefully I can find them again.

I think this one is my favorite.  I used Caron's Simply Soft yarn, and I liked that it was a slightly bigger size than the other baby sweater patterns that I've gotten from Bella Bambina's blog.  I definitely would love to make more of these.

Melissa is due in ten days.  I'm hoping to try and make something else quickly once I find out the sex of the baby.  Like, I could probably make a cute sweater dress in a few days if it's a girl.  Not sure what I'll make if it's a boy.  Maybe a blue sweater or hat.  Although, I do have a pattern for a pumpkin hat I'd like to try, and it is almost fall.  (I'm so excited for fall!)