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Socks for Mom and me (Pairs #44 and 45)

Here are two pair of socks that I made for Mom and myself.

These are Mom’s (**Deborah Norville Serenity Paprika)……….

……….and these are mine (**Regia 2068 and Regia 2066 for the black)…..

Santa soldier

Dad was in the Army way back when (in the 1950′s).  Keith found this Santa soldier at Hobby Lobby and I had to get it for Dad.  I knitted matching camo hats for the soldier, Dad and Dad’s great-grandson, Zachary.  Dad says it’s his favorite hat I’ve ever knitted for him – fits him the best – yay!!!!

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The cutest lil’ bumblebee ever (yes, I knit his hat and sewed his little mitts)………..

Snuggie baby

Here is a snuggie I crocheted and a hat I knitted for Zach for his car seat.  He is also wearing fleece mitts I custom-made to keep his precious hands warm.

Here he is testing it out before I finished the sleeves……..

Here he is in the shape of what he stole from my family when he was conceived…….

………..and playing shy…….

…….yet still being patient………..

………….and “please can this be over with”……………

The “Snuggle Up” pattern is here but I made adjustments.  I did mine with a sc/dc stitch to make it warmer (Corey loves sc/dc – when he was a kid he called it “the warmest pattern” so I chose that stitch for mine).  I also made it longer – do what you want to make it work for your child of choice.  This one was custom crocheted for Zach.

The hat pattern is a combination of patterns that I found – again, custom knit to be perfect for Zachary.

Our lil’ multitasker…

Zach is a multitasker……here he is in his high chair taking a bottle and hugging a frog……..

Boo!

Boo!  That’s the color name of the I Love This Yarn used to make Zach’s latest sleepsack……….

For the record, I also knit him the cute little pumpkin hat he’s wearing using this pattern.  I found a leaf pattern somewhere on the internet and added the leaf.  There is a leaf pattern linked within the pumpkin hat pattern, but I chose a different leaf – use whatever leaf pattern you like.

For the sleepsack, here’s the pattern I used – I created this pattern after reviewing lots of options and consulting with Danielle on what she and I thought would work best for Zach.  She loves this design.

Yarn weight:  Worsted

Needle size:  Whatever you like to use for worsted – use magic loop, dpn’s, whatever you like.  I use size 8 and magic loop.

Directions:  Cast on 80 stitches (I cast on with two needles to make it looser and stretchier).

Join in a circle being careful not to twist stitches – you will be knitting in the round.

Rib for two inches – I use a k2 p2 but you can use whatever ribbing you prefer.

Switch to stockinette and knit until desired length.

For Zach, I knit a 12 inch total length (including ribbing) for newborn…………

15 inch total length (including ribbing) for up to three months……………

and 18 inch total length (including ribbing) for his Boo! sleepsack.  He was twelve weeks old when I made the Boo! sleepsack so it lasted him awhile.

Kitchener the bottom closed.  Don’t fear the kitchener!!!

Then………….make an I-cord.  I use this…………..

and my I-cords are 30-40 inches long, depending on the size of the sleepsack.  I must give credit to Danielle – she was my I-cord maker on the sleepsacks I’ve made.  Weave the I-cord into the ribbed section and tie into a bow.  Perfection!  We didn’t use the I-cord for his largest size (Boo!) because he was more mobile and we were worried about him getting tangled in it.  The sleepsack still worked great without the I-cord.

For Zach, this pattern is perfection.  I hope it’s great for your baby, grandbaby, niece, nephew……….whoever you want to knit a cool gift for.  Enjoy!

Matching hats

These are matching hats I knit for Corey for his birthday – one for him and one for his son.  He loved them.

Cute as a button

Cute as a button – understatement.  This kid is perfect – and yes, I know every grandparent says that about their new grandbaby.  Here are two pictures of him in an outfit made by his mommy, Danielle, and myself.  We got an iron-on that said “cute as a button”.  Somehow, even with following directions, it melted to the iron so Danielle traced what did appear on the onesie with a sharpie and sewed the buttons on, with Great Grandma Carol teaching her how to sew on the buttons.

The hoodie and the hat were knit by me.  All yarn was I Love This Yarn worsted.  The hat pattern is basically the Rainbow Marley pattern in Itty-Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson, with a few changes.

Sleepsack

Before Zach was born, I heard about sleepsacks.  They have lots of different names but that’s the name I use.  I started one with sock yarn but that was too much work so I made my own pattern and changed to worsted.  This is the result……..

It was so cool that I made him another one, a bit longer to make room for those long legs as he grows………

How precious is that child????????  Yep, very precious.  Danielle used my I-cord maker to make the I-cord for both of them.  I’ll post my pattern another day.  It’s simple and fun and very functional.

Thanks Joanie!

Thanks Joanie!  My friend, Joanie, parted with this yarn.  It was in two huge hanks and Mark, Danielle and myself wound it into these balls.  The container of little bits will be crocheted into ties for baby booties and made into poms for hats – Danielle will be doing that.  On the left is a sweater started for Zach.  This yarn is Jamie and it has a satin thread running through it (it looks like satin to me) so I’m taking that out as I go for Zach’s sweater – don’t want it to look too girly.

Zach helped………………how cute is he?????????????????

Carrie and Chloe tried to help too, bless their hearts.

Trivial fact…………….how many of these do you think that pile of Jamie made????????

This skein is 1.5 oz.  The “pile” of Jamie is 5.5 lbs.  That translates to the fact that the pile would have made eight-eight ounces, which would be 58 2/3 skeins of Jamie (if I did my math right).  WOW!