expectation

First Baby Bib, originally uploaded by Jennysaisquoi.

My, my…how quickly things change. I have spent some time away from blogging for a while now. Mostly because in early August my husband and I found out that we are expecting…a baby, that is! It was so early in the pregnancy that we decided to keep it to ourselves until after my first ultrasound. I have had NOTHING but this baby on my mind since finding out, and as a consequence, NOTHING to blog about. But now, I am free to blather on and on about this much loved, much cherished little one growing in my tummy.

Everyone finally stopped asking us when we were going to start having babies, and that’s when we decided it was a good time. Aren’t we devilish? We like to keep people guessing.

With the news of our little one officially out there, I have been looking for baby knitting patterns on Ravelry (which, by the way, if you’re a knitter and not a member, do yourself a favor and sign up!). The bib in the picture I cast on last night and finished this morning from one of those patterns I found. The bib is absolutely adorable, quick to knit, and it has a little bit of cable knitting for those of us who are addicted to cables.

Other things I plan to knit for baby:

wash cloths
burp cloths
sleep sack
gown
cutesy pants
adorable sweater
hats
wool diaper covers
more bibs

knit me baby one more time

I love to crochet and knit.  My grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was a young girl and I taught myself how to knit in my early twenties.  Needless to say, my crochet skills far surpass my knitting knowledge.  When I knit, I tend to only knit squares, scarves, long tubes on circular needles…I knit mostly for the satisfaction of knitting.  The gentle click of the needles, the feel of superior yarn, and having something to do with my hands.  I often practice different cast on methods (my preferred is the long tail cast on, but I’ve recently become a cable cast-on convert), and I try my hand at new stitching methods.  I have never really tackled a big knitting project, because I knit slowly and the patterns are way more complicated than crochet patterns.  I end up getting frustrated with my lack of progress and the pattern’s lack of clear instruction and abandon the task.   

Recently, I felt the itch to stitch, and began knitting an easy textured scarf, but I also wanted to  try something new.  Enter my current obsession with cable knitting.  This obsession has led me to attempt an actual cable knit project.   And I found the perfect one:  it’s a cabled throw that is knit in long scarf-like strips.  The completed strips are stitched together.  To my surprise, the pattern is super easy to follow and not full of a lot of vague instructions.

=Here’s the first strip.

I have never attacked a piece of knitting with such relish, but there is something so very satisfying about creating those thick, floaty cables. 

So if my humble cables don’t inspire you to cast on warm and cozy knits in the middle of the summer, let me suggest you take a peek at a couple of my favorite blogs whose authors are also voracious knitters (and crafters) and much, much more talented than I.  I’ve linked to some of their more recent knitting posts. Enjoy!

Sarah at Handmade Homeschool 

Amanda at SouleMama

Lucy at { a black pepper }

 

    

 

Hiatus

It’s been awhile.  Unexpected internet problems have kept me away and outdoors to enjoy a couple of rare sunny days.  Hikes through the woods, trails that led across lovely overgrown fields, a long forgotten cemetary… 

 

Seamus catching flies on High Rock.

 

Trail through a field on the most beautiful day of the year.

Pardon Gray Cemetary surrounded by a perfect rock wall in the middle of that field.

These pictures barely show the beauty of the day and the place.

Seamus enjoying the rock wall.

Nostalgic Collage

notebooks & lists

notebooks, originally uploaded by Jennysaisquoi.

I love notebooks, journals, moleskines, diaries. I always have to have a set of at least three going at any given moment. A diary for planning, a moleskine for listing, and a journal for chronicling. The list in the moleskine is for a trip to the bookstore and yarn store today.