A Puffy Quilt for Abby!

One of the many goodies I brought with me when I visited South Jersey was a baby puffy quilt for Abby! This one took me forever to pick out the fabric. There were so many directions to go! I thought maybe it should be cowgirl themed since her Aunt Jaclyn lives in Texas, or maybe space themed because her mama worked at NASA, or maybe something zoo themed since I love the zoo and I couldn’t wait to go with Abby (check!). I ended up finding a brand new fabric with maps, and anchors, and narwhals that I fell in love with. I figured since she’s going to be such a fancy world traveler (thanks to her daddy in the Navy), it would be incredibly suitable. And, it was pink and navy colored which was perfect for this princess! Check out the end product:

I’ve heard that Abby likes her blanket and has been getting some good tummy time on it. Keep up the hard work, lady!

Love you,
Aunt

Puffy Quilt for Krista and Brian's New Nugget

My good soccer and game night peeps, Krista and Brian just had a sweet baby boy and I had a puffy quilt waiting for them. Unfortunately, I got really sick right after he was born and I had to wait until after Christmas break to give them his puffy quilt. So, now that they have finally seen it I can reveal it here. It was another unisex attempt, but I think it turned out a bit boyish so I'm glad they had a boy! Here it is:

I always love a good animal themed blanket! I also made a pink and grey one for Miss Reagan, but I totally forgot to take pictures of it! Major fail! I'll have to ask Ali to snap a few shots of it for me I guess.

Enjoy!

Puffy Baby Quilt

I found this tutorial on how to make a puffy baby quilt on the Honeybear Lane blog and I knew I had to at least attempt this project. It looked like tons of fun and I figured it would make an excellent present for the baby in miss Amy's belly. So I headed to the fabric store and immediately bought some purple, yellow, and brown fabrics to make the pieces to the quilt. Luckily, I found out the next day that Amy was having a girl, phew! If you want to make a puffy quilt for yourself or someone special the tutorial can be found at these links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Here are my puffs pre-assembly:


And here are some finished product pictures:




I know baby Evan already likes his sister's blanket, so hopefully she will love it as well! Guess we'll find out December-ish?

EtsyTX Baby Gift Swap

I joined the Etsy TX Street Team and immediately wanted to interact with other members. I decided to do the Baby Gift Swap going on in February. How it works is a bunch of people sign up a baby (Yes I'm borrowing Evan for this activity, No I do not have a secret child) and then they each get assigned a swap partner. Then you make a gift for your partner and htey make somehting for you. I was assigned Jemimah who has a 9 month old girl for my project. I read her Gift Swap profile and found out that she likes 1950's fashion and green and white were her favorite colors. I decided to knit a hat from this information. I used these two pictures of 1950's hat styles as my inspiration:



I used the shape of the green swimming cap style hat in the collage photo and the bow on the turban-style hat to create the following look:




Hope it works out well!

Auburn Themed Baby Shower Gift Set

So, a friend of mine asked me to make him a baby shower gift for some close friends of his that were due in March. They weren't finding out the sex of the baby so we needed to find a different approach to color than pink or blue. Since both my friend and the couple having the baby attended Auburn University for their undergrad degrees, I figured this would be an awesome theme for the gift set. Little did I know that the yarn world is predispositioned to hate pastel orange colored yarn. I have bought 4 different yarns to finally achieve the orange I wanted in a skein of yarn large enough for a blanket. First I ordered my favorite baby blanket yarn, the Cotton Clouds Softball .75 worsted 1 lb cone in pale orange yellow. This yarn was too yellow and I got stuck with it since it was apparently a special order (lesson: buy the color card even if it's $9!). The next yarn I ordered was the same yarn only in a cantaloupe color recommended by the super nice ladies at Cotton Cloud. Unfortunately the distributor had discontinued this color and forgotten to tell them, huge bummer. My third attempt was the Peaches N Cream cotton yarn in the color shrimp. I decided after knitting about a foot of the blanket that this color was practically neon orange next to the pale blue so I needed to find something lighter. I went to JoAnn's and found a Pound of Love in a peach color and went to town with that. Here are some pictures of the finally underway blanket under construction.

Yarn:


'Wrong side' that I actually prefer:


Close Up of the cable:


'Right side' of the blanket:


P.S. They had a girl! 8lb 2oz :)