Babies everywhere!

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted!  I've been keeping busy crocheting the whole time, but mostly at work on my breaks.  Once it started getting warm out, I had to start putting time in with yard work.  I was blessed with a beautiful garden when we bought this house, but it seems the previous owner planted so many things in the yard that it has a tendency to get overgrown rather quickly...and the weeds are plentiful!

I'm putting the finishing touches on that yellow blanket that I originally started last August.  I had to put it aside while I made some things for baby Alex, and I didn't get back to it right away.  I'm so glad it's just about finished.  I plan on giving it to a co-worker as a gift for her very first grandchild.  I also made a sweater out of Snuggly Wuggly Baby Yarn that may or may not be Daffodil Dots.  I have to look for the color name in my stash.

And just when I thought I could get back to the throw for my couch that I started what seems like an eternity ago, my boss announced that her daughter was expecting her second child...  And then she found out her daughter-in-law is also expecting her first child.  Since then, we've found out that one of them will be a boy.  In the meantime, I started a sweater using Snuggly Wuggly Baby Pastel Ombre.  The pattern is Bella Bambina's Sweater Coat, but instead of the G hook listed in the pattern, I'm using an H hook in hopes it will come out a little larger.

I have to have the blanket and other sweater finished very soon, since my co-worker's daughter-in-law is scheduled for a C-section at the beginning of August.  I'll try to post pictures of them as soon as I finish up.  

So excited!

I'm slowly finishing up this baby blanket.  Alexander James (who is as cute as a button!) was born last Wednesday, and I was hoping to have it done before my friend Sarah left the hospital, but I just couldn't do it.  (My left hand still gives me problems if I crochet or type for too long.)  I only have about five inches left to go, so hopefully I can finish it up this weekend.  I'll post a better picture when it's all done.  At least I'm done with the sweater and matching hat, and I have to pick out buttons to finish it off.

I was surfing through some crochet blogs tonight, but I'm unsure exactly how I found these patterns.  I wound up on Etsy and purchased these tonight.  I'm waiting to get the email with the patterns.  These are Animal Hat Patterns, and they are just so adorable!  I'm glad I decided to save the gift cards for Michael's and AC Moore for Christmas.  :D

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.