New Highchair

This highchair was really expensive, but it's so nice. It's the Graco Blossom in the Townsend pattern. It's a 4-in-1 chair and is really sturdy. We got it cause it comes with a booster seat and can convert to a toddler seat as well. The other big factor was the shoulder straps. Quinlan can't sit up on her own yet so we wanted a chair with straps to keep her from falling on her face.

Here she is giving the new chair a thumbs up....err...thumbs in!

Ugh!

I just finished a project for Quinlan and it was one of the least enjoyable knits I've ever done. A big part of my distaste for the project was the yarn. I decided to wind it by hand (I hardly ever do this) and found 5 knots total. Three where the yarn was cut and knotted back together and two places where the plies were knotted.


I absolutely love the color and feel of this yarn, but I don't know if I'll be knitting with it again.

I also hated the project because I couldn't find a good pattern. I guess I can't blame the yarn for that.

I started out knitting the Owl Baby Vest which was a perfect match for the yarn size, but even this slightly variegated (more like a semi-solid) yarn started pooling. I hate pooling and knew it would look terrible with the owls. Trying to do this pattern with a semi-solid yarn was a bad idea in the 1st place so I frogged and started again.

I moved on to Little Sister's Dress, but the yarn was the wrong weight. I knew this, but some how I tried to forge ahead with too big yarn and too big needles. The dress obviously came out way too big and I started to run out of yarn before I was even halfway through. I should have taken pics, but it's just too embarrassing. I frogged.

Then, somehow I got it in my head that I wanted to knit Quinlan a shrug/bolero and I searched Ravelry high & low for a good shrug pattern for dk weight yarn. I couldn't turn up anything that was free. Then out of no where I remembered that my friend Cassie sent me a baby pattern book a long time ago and there might be something in it. How lucky I was to find Design C - Bolero.

It's blocking right now but I'll get some pics of her modeling it as soon as it's dry:
I think I'm going to sell my other skein of this yarn in red so I never have to look at it again!

Daddy & Quinlan

Time Flies!

Whoa! Where does the time go? I guess I haven't posted in a LONG time. Since this is my knitting blog and I haven't been knitting, that's ok right?

Now that I've given birth to my daughter, I haven't found time to knit much of anything. I say that because I did manage to knit one thing in the car on Saturday. My husband said that we needed more coasters and I said that I could knit some. He thought that was a great idea so I got out some cotton and whipped up one coaster in no time. When we got home I blocked it and when it was dry I sewed some felt on the bottom.

That coaster functioned as a coaster for about 20 minutes until it became the closest thing to a burp cloth that was in my reach. Who knew that 4" circle would be so effective in drying milk spit up?

On Sunday we bought a set of 5 ceramic coasters!

Baby Knits So Far....

Right now I only have 9 things knit for baby and I only have 6 more weeks to go. What else should I knit? I guess I could do the traditional booties and maybe a hat. There are so many cute baby patterns, but it's hard to pick when you don't know what sex the baby will be. If it's a boy, two of the sweaters I've made will have to be saved for another baby!

This pattern is cute:
Sweet Baby Cap

So is this one:
Berry Hat

But I can't do blue or pink or purple...maybe I could knit red and it could be a strawberry hat. Yellow & green are neutral but you can't do a fruit hat with yellow & green! Maybe I'll do this one instead: Bunny Hat

So many patterns and so little time!

That Explains It!

So now that I'm pregnant, I don't want this to become a baby blog. It's still a knitting blog, but I must share a pregnancy story.

Lately I've been craving Pringles in the original flavor. I just want them all the time. Sometimes they're all I can think about and I can't get any work done. I will want them for breakfast, lunch, dinner & dessert. It's weird because I haven't had Pringles in a LONG time. We never buy chips and if we do, they're tortilla chips to go with salsa. Never Pringles. I couldn't figure out why on earth I felt that I needed them so bad. Where did this craving come from? I hadn't see a commerical for them or anything. After a few days of complaining I finally got some and boy were they good. They were everything I'd dreamed they'd be.

So...this past weekend I was working on finishing a new baby knit (Baby Bell Bottoms) and I asked my husband if he would go into the craft room and get me my double pointed needles. He said yes and asked me where they were. I explained where they were and then he wanted to know what they looked like. It was then that the light bulb went off. My grandmother gave me all of her knitting needles & notions about 2 years ago. The double pointed needles arrived to me in a Pringles can! Not just any Pringles can either. A can in the original flavor made in 1987. Can you believe it? I've been looking at this old Pringles can of knitting needles almost every day now and didn't even realize that's probably where my cravings have originated from. I now present you with the old versus the new: