Baby knits and pics therein

So the package of baby stuff I’d knitted for friends (that I met through WoW, go geek team!) got to them yesterday, and the Daddy happily took pics of them for me (since I was a dumbass and forgot in the rush to get them to the mail center).  The big item was the blanket. I’d had an idea what I was getting myself into, but not really. That was a lot of knitting. God help me when I actually decide to tackle a sweater. At least the stole was “make you think once every 4 rows”. This was mindless knitting. Which actually was nice come to think of it. I got to watch a lot of TV and get caught up on some series I’d been missing, cos it was easy enough to knit and pay attention to the TV, not my hands. Okay, ignore the bitching. It was just a LOT of pink and normally, I don’t do pink.

The pattern was from a book called Stitch ‘n Bitch. I saw the Big Bad Baby Blanket in there and knew I had to make it at some point for someone. In this case, the someone turned out to be my friends. I still like the pattern, and suppose that for mindless knitting, it works out nice. I just wish I’d been able to work on it a bit more regularly instead of in bits and pieces when Life wasn’t getting in the way. But since they’d requested pink, and since it was for a baby, I declined to purchase a bunch of handpainted wool like the book suggested. Instead, easy-to-care-for, but still passing the “oh that’s nice and soft!” feel test, baby pink acrylic won out. And since that was a hell of a lot of pink, I ended up renaming it the PANK! Big Bad Baby Blanket of Dooooom.

Yep, that’s pink and a lot of it.

While I’d been chatting to the parents-to-be, I’d jokingly threatened to make a hat and booties to go with it. But I didn’t want to use the same yarn as the blanket. Easy care, yes, but wanted something a little more special-ish than what I’d knitted the blanket out of. I’d seen an organic cotton that looked good, but it clashed bad with the blanket. There were a couple of other choices, but they all clashed with the blanket. About the point I was going to give up and just knit it all out of the same thing, I saw some bright pink yarn. Hey, lookie there! They actually go together! One’s just LOUD pink and one’s baby pink! Oh what the hell, it’s worth a shot. After running around on Ravelry for a while, I found a couple of freebie patterns for a hat and booties. The booties were… interesting to knit up. And I think I knitted the hat 3 times before it got finished. Slippery yarn + metal DPNs = dropped stitches and swearing.

See? Rather a bright pink! But do they go together with the blanket?

Yep!

Aw yeah, that’s working juuuuust fine.

Apparently their first little girl has decided that the baby stuff is hers as well, and as a result, I’m currently working on a knitted kitty for her from a pattern I also found on Ravelry, in a soft lavender in the same type of yarn as the hat and booties. Hopefully that will appease her for a little bit til the new sister arrives.