Busy, busy!

Cathy and I have come out of hibernation, and we've got a great stocking planned for later this month!

Here is a sneak peek of what is on the needles today. 

 I wonder what colors they are?!

STOCKING!!

AK is offering a pair of red, white, and blue shorties just in time for your 4th of July celebrations! The winner will be chosen tomorrow (Monday, June 27th, at 8pm CST), so hurry over to enter!

We're also stocking some newborn and small longies, as well as introducing my daughter Paige, who has some shorties and ADORABLE bunny loveys, all available tonight!

http://hyenacart.com/stores/AdventureKnits

It's a GIRL!!

It took awhile, but I'm finally getting around to introducing our newest AK baby!

I'd like you to meet our sweet Hannah Mae =)

Born 10/21/10
4:46am
7lbs 3ozs
18.5" long



Going home:


And at two weeks:




I'm only a month late. Better late than never, right?!

Still Waiting.....Still Knitting!

It seems that my fingers have the itch to keep going right up until the time baby arrives, and so they do!

I started by knitting the 'Roanoke' Malabrigo that I mentioned in my last post, though I just couldn't decide how I wanted to finish them. My first thought was a ruffled cuff, but I ended up having two problems with that plan. One, I wouldn't be able to roll a ruffle, and two, I realized that I loved the rich chocolate colors so much that I wanted to be able to use them if we had a boy too. I certainly could have knit them in our 'standard' pattern, with a seed stitch cuff and matching drawstring, though if we DO have a girl, I really wanted to be able to make them more feminine in some way. My dilemma raged and my fingers sat idle and unhappy until I finally decided to just knit them down to the cuff and then wait to see what we have before adding the finishing touches.

Getting to that point freed me up to move on to something else so I knit the following longies from more yarn that I picked up when Sarah and I stopped by our yarn shop for the open house.


Small longies, that my daughter named 'Blooming Roses'

And with that, my current supply of girly yarn was extinguished. Still feeling the urge to knit, I again dug though my yarn bags and pulled out a couple of smaller remnants of 'Neptune' by ZenString, that when put together equaled enough to make something. Don't you just love it when that happens?


Newborn 'Neptune' dyed on Bliss BFL by ZenString

I lanolized both of these this morning, and now I again wait. With nothing else to do, I find that I keep pulling out 'Roanoke', just to look at it and wonder what it will become. After awhile I pack them back into my knit bag with a sigh. It's so hard for me to leave them sitting there, unfinished. It's a good thing that I'm pretty sure we're finally within our last few days of waiting!

More Baby Knits

Baby time has been sneaking up on us the last couple of months. We're now within a few weeks, and the excitement and anticipation is high in the house! I've been spending a lot of time knitting in preparation, though much less time updating on those knits. Here's what's come off the needles since August.

If it's a boy......

Teeny BFL longies in 'Water', dyed by Marina at Stitches Under the Sun.

Newborn 'Strength' BFL longies dyed by Amanda at Dyeing to Fly


And, I couldn't stand it anymore so I found the closest matching scrap that I could and added a drawstring to those 'Heavenly' longies that I had made earlier.

With these, and the things that I have left over from Nathan, I think I'm all set in the boy department. Girl is another story. Leia is 5 now, and after going through my stash it seems that I apparently sold most of the wool that I used with her, which left me focusing more on the girly knits.


'Nana's Garden' teeny BFL longies dyed by Marina at Stitches Under the Sun.
(These will be our homecoming longies if baby is a girl)


I dug through my scraps and used up my 'Diante' 3-ply purewool and a matching grey for these Newborn longies.


Small 'Quinn' longies, dyed by Three Irish Girls.

And the most recent project (late last night) to come off the needles are these Newborn 'Tender' longies, made from the new Malabrigo Twist. Sarah and I headed to an open house at our local yarn shop on Saturday where I spotted this yarn. I hesitated, but in the end I just had to have it, and have to say now that I absolutely loved knitting these up. The yarn itself is very dense. I am anticipating a low pill, durable pair of longies, yet it was so soft that it felt like I was knitting with a silky cotton, which will be perfect for baby skin! I'll definitely be getting more of this yarn!

I'm not sure if they will get done before baby arrives, though I'm currently working on a pair of Newborn Malabrigo longies in 'Roanoke', which is a mixture of browns. I know I said I needed more girl than boy, but I was so drawn to the richness of the color that I couldn't resist it. My current thought is to add some flowers and possibly a ruffled cuff to 'sweeten them up' a tad, but I guess we'll just have to wait to see what they want to become -smile-

And that's been my last 8 knitting weeks! Stay tuned, as my next post with photos should include a model!

My daughter has also been knitting......

My daughter Paige has been busy knitting for baby as well.

Her first projects were a couple pair of booties. Since we choose to not find out what we're having until birth, everything has to either be gender neutral in the beginning, or we make one of each. She chose to do one of each. As we were going through baby boxes, we found that we already have a pair of blue booties that were saved from Nathan, so the blue ones below will be given to our cousins baby boy, due about a week after ours.

After the booties, she wanted to make a lovey.
This sweet bunny is SO soft, and super snuggly!

It was our first time trying embroidery, but I think it turned out pretty well. The head was stuffed with fleece, so that there is no worry about loose stuffing and choking babies.

She also plans to make, and try to sell some in pink, blue, green, and the yellow. They may or may not be listed on AK as they are completed, so if you know of anyone looking for an all natural, handmade snuggly for a baby gift, let us know!

Super knits Paige! I love them all, and I know baby will too!

More Knits for Baby.

Any free time I've had recently (which isn't a whole lot, really) has been spent continuing to knit for baby.

I made these small longies from a skein of 3-ply purewool in the 'Heavenly' colorway.



Wanna hear something embarrassingly funny? I up-sized them as much as I could to get the most growth room, but in doing so, I didn't leave myself enough yarn for the drawstring -blush- I haven't yet decided if I'm going to pull something that will match from my scrap bag, or just go without. At this stage the drawstring isn't really necessary, so I'm leaning towards the 'skip-it' route.

After those, I moved on to try out a cocoon. It looks so long, but is actually only about 18" at the lower part in the front, so should fit baby nicely. Excuse my fold lines in the picture. I had these completed and stuffed in my bag for some time before getting a chance to take photos.

Next coming will be longies in the 'Quinn' colorway and I have to say, I'm excited! I've been holding on to that yarn for the last 3 or 4 years just waiting for a time that I could use it. This still may not be 'the time', but I just can't wait any longer to see it all knit up and in my stash!