BSJ is done! \O/

I finished the Baby Surprise Jacket last night, and sewed the buttons on this evening. Hopefully, tomorrow's weather will cooperate and we'll have enough sunlight that I can take some good pictures of the sweater and the dragon-scale booties.

I've started the "A Good Bias" shrug from Interweave Knits Spring 2005. I'm using Bernat Handicrafter Cotton in off-white, and I'm shortening the sleeves some from 14" (as the pattern is written) to perhaps half that. I want to have something to wear over my tank-tops when I'm at work, to make things look a little nicer. This pattern is open and the cotton will breathe better than acrylic.

BSJ update

99 of 114 rows done on the Baby Surprise Jacket. This is the oddest looking thing I've ever knit - odd looking at this point, anyway. When it's done, it all folds just so and I only have to seam across the shoulders and the tops of the sleeves.

I'm hoping to get it finished tomorrow evening, after work. My wife's cousin has already had the baby for which it's being knit, so... yeah, I need to get it finished and delivered to the little'un. =)

Hope all y'all are doing well!

New ball of baby yarn!

I picked up a ball of Bernat Baby Jacquards in Macaroon, yesterday. One of the guys with whom I work is going to be a new daddy in August, and I'd like to make a little something for his little-boy-in-progress. =) (They found out the other day that it's a boy.)

I'm not sure what to make - probably booties, or maybe baby socks and a little stuffie or something. I don't know. I do know that I have to finish this Baby Surprise Jacket for my wife's cousin's new baby girl, first.

I haven't had much time to be crafty, the past few weeks. I did finish a little pair of baby booties, following a fantastic pattern about which I'll post when I put up pictures of the booties. I've also just started on the Baby Surprise Jacket. Both booties and jacket are being worked with Bernat Baby Jacquards in colourway 06230, Spearmint Candy. I love the colours. =)

I've nearly finished the shawl I started a few weeks ago, too - but I haven't touched it in a bit. It only needs a few more inches to be complete. As with the booties - pictures to come, soon!