Wyatts knitted sweater

My very first knitted sweater!! Can't believe I made that, and then again I look at it, and I think ya I did make that I can see some mistakes, but I'm seriously trying not to worry about that as much. And considering next month will be a year since I learned how to knit, I'm pretty impressed with myself. Then again you should see me, that's the only thing I am doing when I have free time, and it seems I have alot of it lately, which I'm totally soaking up, because I know one of these days I won't have any time for myself :)

So here's the first of many baby sweaters I will be making. This is a 3-6 month sweater, so hopefully Wyatt (AJ's nephew) will be able to still fit in it when the weather is appropriate for a sweater.

A nurse at work taught me how to make this, on a couple conditions, the first is, I cannot sell any of these sweaters I make using her pattern, and two I cannot give out the pattern. This is her design, and she sells the sweaters she makes at little shops all over. I was just happy that she was willing to share the pattern with me, because these will make wonderful baby shower gifts :)

Oh, and I don't know if you can see the buttons on it, I found a whole bunch of really cute buttons at Michael's yesterday, this one has a giraffe and a monkey on it, I found some ballerina ones, fairies, animals, sports, and all sorts of neat buttons, this is going to be way too much fun :)

Tylers baby blanket

OK, so I'm pretty sure I have some obsessive compulsive behaviors! I started Tylers baby blanket this last Sunday, you know 4 days ago, and I finished it this morning, along with washing it.

I forgot how fast crocheting goes compared to knitting, and so I put about the same amount of time in this as I have with knitting, however I would only be 1/3 of the way done by now, not finished. I did this one different than any other blankets I have crocheted in the past. I'm trying to think outside the crochet box. So what I did with this blanket is a single crochet border, and then inside of the border its double crochet. OK so not really thinking outside the box, however I never try anything different when I crochet, only when I knit, probably because I'm so new at knitting. Anyhow here's a super duper up close picture of the blanket (above), and below is the picture of the final project!! It turned out huge, I haven't measured it, but it will definitely be a blanket he can use for awhile.....well lets hope :)

ta da!! now I am working on knitting the cat in the hat dishcloth, I'm about 1/3 of the way finished :) seriously do you think I need meds for this???? like they say when you quit smoking you trade one addiction for another, thank goodness it ended up being knitting, and crocheting!!

Tyler

One of the nurses I work with made this hat and sweater, which she gave me to give to my nephew. I went over to Melissa's house yesterday for a few hours and played with Tyler. He is getting so big 10lbs!! he'll be 3 weeks old this coming Thursday. So I had to take a couple pictures of him in the outfit, and I can't believe he was actually awake while I took the pictures!