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Gift idea for mother-to-be

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Looking for a useful but unique gift for a new mom or mother-to-be?  Make some burp cloths.

I made these a few weeks ago for Mr. Aitch’s niece who’s expecting her first baby in February.  I used a few different prints and coordianted them with the baby bedding.

The tutorial is on my tutorial page.  You can make two out of one  yard of flannel or get creative and use two ro more coordinating prints and solids.  My original ones were made out of leftover pieces of flannel as well as some cut up flannel sheets and even a few of Mr. Aitch’s too-small-but-still-good flannel shirts.  Just make sure you pre-shrink the flannel as it will shrink…A LOT!!  I can’t stress that enough.  Pre-shrink!!

Click here for more info then print out the directions and make a mom happy.

Cupcake hats

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I’ve been working on these for a couple of weeks and finally got around to photographing them.  I think I still want to add some sparkle with small beads.

The bobbles are different.  The pink hat has half the amount of bobbles as the purple hat.  Too much time elapsed between making them and I didn’t remember how I placed them.

They will fit the twins and I don’t have any small heads to model them so you will have to use your imagination.  If I’m lucky, I’ll get some pictures of them wearing the hats.

Cupcake Pattern: Chile Con Yarne

Cherry on top: Cherries are the Bomb

Yarn: stuff from my stash.  Lion Brand tan heather for the ribbing, Caron  Simply Soft Strawberry for the pink hat, Red Heart Super Saver Lavender for the purple hat, Lion Brand dark green heather for the cherry stems, and some unidentified red yarn for the cherries.  I over stuffed the cherries but I’m not removing any.

FO Friday

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Sometimes it works out that I have a finished object to post on FO Fridays.

My Garter Stitch bag is finished.  Strap.  Lining.  Button Loop.  Button.  Finished.

I decided not to use the leather straps as they weren’t long enough for my comfort.  So I knit an I-cord around some nylon rope.

I only made one strap because I don’t like two straps on my shoulder.  It seems like one is always falling off and I’m constantly fiddling with it.  After the strap was felted, I sewed it to the inside of the bag.

This is the outside with the strap sewn on.

And this is what it looks like on the inside.  I knit about 25 rows flat so I had a flat section to attach to the bag.  10 rows would have done the trick but I wanted to make sure it was big enough.  Better to be safe than sorry.  I sewed on the button loop, too, but I forgot to get a picture of that part.

The next step was attaching the 1 1/2 inch button.  This was something I actually had in my button stash.  The price was right at 25 cents.

Then I lined it.

With the lime green.

Because I liked it the best.

I’ll have Mr. Aitch take a picture of me with the bag so you can get a better idea of the size.  I’ll put the details on my Ravelry page, too.