Dalia's Blanket

Dalia's Blanket, originally uploaded by hadleyfierlinger.

One of my very best, oldest friends has just had her very first baby, a girl, Dalia. This is the very first baby from this set of friends and I don't have words to describe how excited I am. I just wish she wasn't 6000 miles away from California. The very second I heard that Lauren was going to have a baby I whipped out my NZ organic merino wool yarn and my circular needles and I searched for a pattern. As this was my first blanket I was looking for a simple pattern and I found the perfect one in Knitting for Baby. Basically, the pattern is knit diagonally like a shawl. Increasing at the beginning of each row until it was long enough to keep a baby warm and then decreasing on the down slope. Presto - 10 (cough) months later the blanket is 99.9999% there! It has a cute little eyelet trim around it too. I was going to crochet a pale pink around the edge but since the baby is born and all, I better put it in the mail. I just wish I had the time to do some embroidery on it like MANTA DE BÉBÉ BEM QUENTINHA! VERY WARM BABY BLANKET!. As I get to the very last rows of this blanket I am feeling a bit lonely because I enjoyed the ease of this project so much. I need to find another super easy pattern I can knit while watching TV during the long dark southern winter.

knit-a-suarus!

Ah, I know all to well having 2 boys of my own that there is a desperate shortage of cool knitting projects for people who are NOT, I repeat NOT, into dolls. Download this lovely and (yey) free pattern available at xtreme knitting. Knit 3 ferocious little dinosaurs with all those lovely bits of yarn you have stashed away. This little triceratops was knit by Grumperina. They each take one ball of specified yarn so they are a great one ball project a good way make use of all those bits of yarn that are too good to throw away. Grrrrrrr!