Photographic Evidence

Victorian Christmas Shawl
Originally uploaded by firefly kiwi

And here my lovely comrades is a picture of the shawl I made that I mentioned in my previous post. I would have pictures of the bib and blanket but I forgot to take pictures before sending them off.

This was made from a pattern found on a Caron yarn band and it was called Victorian Christmas. See those little puff stitches? They took me forever to learn how to do properly.

For Mommy and Baby

Let’s go back a few months to late November 2007. An event amongst my friends from my college days takes place. There is an ‘expecting baby’ announcement. The first amongst this group. Immediately I began to think of all the different things I could make for the expecting mother and the baby.

I knew right off the bat that I wanted to make a baby blanket. I had a ton of hand-me-down yarn from my mother that was meant for baby items. So I started working on a simple double-crochet blanket. It took me about a month to finish working on it off and on. I then decided to crochet bib.
I found a pattern from Bernat for a simple pattern and went to work. I had never made a bib before and I was surprised at how quickly I finished it.

For mommy-to-be I decided to finish up a shawl that I began several years ago. (Actually it was supposed to be an afghan initially but I won’t get into why I never finished it) I spent some time weaving in the ends after edging the piece. It curved slightly so it draped around the shoulders nicely.

I finally managed to package it all up and ship it this week. It arrived, according to mommy-to-be, today and from what I can tell she really likes them. That makes me happy.

There was only one thing that made me wince, and really it is in all likely-hood that she can’t tell the difference, but she thanked me for knitting the blanket…