Baby Love Blankets & Mittens or Gloves

I finished up the third and last Baby Love Blanket - yea! It came out well. It might just squeak in under the small blanket category but I used what I had on hand.


Here's Teddy sitting with all three of them casually arranged. I tried doing it during a brief clear-sunny sky moment but my batteries needed a recharge.


With the Baby Love blankets done I went back to working on the Piggy Mittens. I started out working them for a large child's hand and thought that looked too big. Ended up following the small child's pattern. Some of the directions assume that you have an actual child hand to measure/try on the mitten in progress, so a lot of guess work went into the creation. Again, I lost lighting so fluorescent and flash off, sorry about that:


Just have three more to make!

I was going to do a "driver's glove" for my mother but have heard its fiddly pattern instructions. I was resisting working on them. This means that I really didn't want to make them. So put aside that idea and found a different pattern and I'm sure things will go better. I had thought to do a version for William but he noticed the task list and started questioning design/color and so I'm not going to make them until he's ready for something like that. Honestly, makes my knitting list easier so I'm not going to complain!

Still have hopes to make some mini-ornaments before Christmas. Have the patterns already to go and sock yarns ready to be used. Just need to find the time of course. I also keep having thoughts of making sock blockers and SIP tubes. Those will most definitely end up having to wait until after the holiday unless a miracle happens.

Found out that we've been put in charge of organizing the 'kids' in what we'll be eating Christmas Eve. I decided that I'd do a crock pot of chicken curry, have one family group do the salad and toppings and the other group the munchies stuff, well we'll all share a bit in that but you know what I mean.

A hat and progress on Baby Love #3

I took a First Degree Reiki class this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) for continuing education credit. It was a fun class and I look forward to using it with clients. Business building plans in the new year. I wasn't sure how much down time I would have so I took along the Baby Love Blanket #3 - Diagonal blanket:


I'm further along after the class. I had breaks and lunches to work on it and was glad. It was the perfect thing to work on while there. I received the yarn from Tiggywinkleknits last Wednesday, and posted it last week. The plan was to increase with two skeins and then start the decreases with the other two. I've completed the increases and started the decreases. May or may not have it done tomorrow night to give all three blankets over to Bobbie.

Last night I finished up the Jacques Cousteau hat that I was initially intending for one of the BIL's. Since I'm using stash yarn, leftovers from Kyle's fingerless gloves, the Berroco Pure Merino, the finished hat fits more of a child sized person than an adult. I had planned to send a hat up to my nephew Garrett, so looks like this is the one:


Just two more hats for nephews, two pairs of mittens for the nieces, and a more items than I'd really like to think about for others. ;^)