With the recent baby-boom among my friends and family, I've been making little baby things. Luckily, they've all been for girls (yeah! for frilly things). I like baby projects - the yarn is typically softer and the pieces take less time to complete. The one thing that I don't enjoy is weaving in all of the ends from the parts of the pieces. Between the starting tail, ending tail and joining threads, some seams had six threads to weave in!
Here's the most recent project, with all of the ends woven in. I'm pretty happy with the results. I absolutely loved the yarn - Caron Simply Soft Grey Heather. Yeah, it's acrylic, but I do like the color. I don't have access to a great yarn shop, so I have to make do with what's available locally.
The jacket is a free pattern from Lion's Brand - available here. The hat also started from a free pattern - which I lost the link to - but I modified the flower pattern using the 'magic' starting ring and changed the stitches to add double petals. I added some coordinating buttons to the jacket and center of the flower and it's done! This set is for my niece who is not quite a year old. I made another set from these patterns in a slightly thicker yarn in a light yellow-green color for a friend's newborn.
Now that this project is finished, I'm contemplating the next.... I have been finding some really great looking pieces using charts (which I've never used before) and I've also recently picked up a tunisian crochet hook, which has been interesting to play with.
