This and that.

 I still haven't got round to posting these two pictures of things I worked on during the crazy holiday period of Oct/Nov/Dec 2011. These were not Christmas presents though. The picture below is of a knitted patchwork blanket and baby. She had spent the first five or so months of her life in hospital. I've been sporadically attending a knitting group at my local library and one of the members came up with the idea of us all contributing a few squares toward this. One of our group members crochet them all together and put a lovely crochet edge around it too. The great news is the little girl got to finally go home just before Christmas wrapped up in a little bit of love from us. I've been knitting up more squares for a future blanket that we may well raffle off to raise money for our library.

The other picture is of a bib, hat and slippers that I knit for my sister, Mrs W., new baby. I wrongly predicted that she was having a girl, and lo and behold a boy was born. I sent the hat and bib, but I will save the slippers for any future baby girl that comes along. My sister told me the hat was the only one she has that does not slip down and cover her little ones eyes when they are out and about. So I will have to use this pattern again.

I haven't been completely hibernating during the first few weeks of 2012. I've worked on a couple of hats, and got one of my sisters Birthday presents done already. I took a trip to a great yarn store called Yarn Love and picked up all I needed to knit my first pair of socks. So I'm still keeping busy with my little projects after my kids have been tucked into bed. I'm looking forward to sharing the finished results with you here soon.