Number 1 - Anna and Andy's number 3

I've been dithering about writing the opening to this blog for ages.. in fact blogger has tried to kick me off several times claiming I was a SPAM BLOG.. how cheeky. So rather than give a thorough introduction to myself and what I'm planning on blogging I thought I'd just start off and write an introduction on that grey day when I don't have any knitting to do.

I'm currently knitting a baby blanket for a friend from University, Anna, who's about to have her THIRD child (cue me feeling VERY old). For her first I made a patchwork quilt, number 2 got a cardi and as I didn't realise she was pregnant until quite late in the game I thought I shouldn't bite off too much. The pattern is from a Vogue Knitting book called baby blankets (I never realised there were soooo many patterns for blankets.. I thought they were just a square). I originally bought it for a pattern of a 'Hey diddle diddle' blanket but as I've already suggested there isn't much inside time left for this little one so it needed to be a bit simpler! I'm rather pleased because I just had a little surf to find a picture of the blanket and found this blogger has knitted it http://wishfulknitting.blogspot.com/ and there is a pleased little person playing with the teddy that lives in the pocket.. so I'm holding out a little hope that baby number 2 (who happens to be 2 when her little brother/sister arrives) might be quietly impressed too.

So back to the knitting.. I'm currently having a bit of love for Rowancashsoft yarn.. I bought a big bag on spec in 4ply peppermint to make (another) baby cardi and then when I went shopping for this yarn had to ring up home and direct the admiral to check I wasn't about to buy exactly the same stuff. thank goodness no, it's DK instead!! So I've gone for bloom for the middle pocket and then there are stripes of chicory, cloud, borage and snowman (think that might be my fave name) which you can have a sneaky look at here http://www.knitrowan.com/yarns/Cashsoft-Baby-DK.aspx. It's the first time I've knit on a circular needle.. I've used double pointers before but this grew much too fast to stay on them for long so I ended up having a little loop of circular needle that I had to keep moving round the knitting.. that may not make sense at all, and maybe I should have bought the smaller length circular needles, but I didn't think of that at the time.

So I'd love to show you a picture of the work in progress but not only is there no natural light to take the most flattering picture, but 2 of the 3 bulbs in here have gone so I'm typing in semi-darkness and that just isn't satisfactory for this cutie. I promise to show it soon.

and I've also made my christmas cards today.. but that's surely another post!

kt