Instead, let's look at some finished objects for new babies. Aww. New babies.
My mom requested hats for 2 babies who are sons/grandsons of her colleagues. In addition, she wanted the hats to have math or cycling motifs. Normally, I would sit down and figure out an intarsia pattern or something, but I was out of creative juices, literally tapped out after Christmas knitting, so I did the following:
Teddy hat, made from bulky yarn, knit almost entirely while I was watching Dreamgirls with Elaine, and Cheri, owner of the Naked Sheep Knit Shop. The face is duplicate stitched with some crazy black yarn from the stash.
Booties, made from the same yarn, using the very easy pattern in Stitch 'n Bitch Nation. The great thing about this pattern is that you learn, without knowing you're doing it, how to turn a heel. The buttons are "vintage" -- by which I just mean old -- from Fabric World. Yes, I went to Fabric World (or Fabic Wod, if you read the letters on the building), even though it smells like GoodWill Times Ten in there. Come on. They're cute buttons, and she charges you the printed price, which was something like 10 cents apiece. I imagine that would have been expensive back in 1965 when they were made.
Stenciled Onesies by Stephanie (with help from John). I took a class on freezer paper stenciling with Nora at Bolt Fabric Boutique (A fabric store which does NOT smell like GoodWill and whose fabric is not older than I am). It's easy, fun, and I got the math motifs and the cycling motifs on the onesies. These 5 took about an hour total, which includes the time spent cutting out the stencils, painting, and heat-setting.
Critics corner: Uh...I might have burned the Pi onesie with the iron a little bit. Sorry about that.
This is what happens when I run out of creative juices. I'm not sure how John puts up with me when the juices are flowing.
That's a lie. I am sure. When he came home and found me writing out a summary of my class in rhymed couplets, he said the same thing as when he came home and found me knitting with strips of plastic grocery bags: "OK. So this is what we're working on now." It's followed by a hasty retreat.
4 comments:
Adorable bear hat.
Next onesie you do should be
(pi)mp. Yeah, because that wouldn't be inappropriate for a baby.
I made Penelope wear the hat you made her until it squashed her brain-- it was just that cute.
Thank goodness for patient husbands ;) My poor, put-upon husband, also has to deal with my crazy hobbies.
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