| I knit this baby blanket for Austin Slotnick out of a sumptuous chenile. I designed the blanket myself, and it is one of several "pinwheel" baby blankets that are created by working six to eight wedges and joining them together. |
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| I knit this adorable little sweater for Charles Emery Meyers Cutting (Charlie) for his first birthday/Hannukah/Christmas/Winter-Solstice/Y2K. You can't really see the hex-nut buttons, but they are too cute! I also got "wing-nut" buttons, but I was worried about injury from falling on them, so I'm going to use them in a sweater for myself. |
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| I knit this adorable little sweater for Charlotte Schneebaum Larish for her birth. For a few weeks, though, I had this sweater attributed to Charlie Meyers Cutting by accident because the sweaters use a similar pattern. |
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| I knit a "Wonderful Wallaby" for Charlotte Bucy. I used as many shades of pink as I could lay my hands on, not so much because she's a girl but more so because she looks great in pink. Her Mom and I teach in the same department (yes, yes, yes, I need links here!) |
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| I knit yet another Wallaby sweater (this time in Chenile) for Evan Link. Brian and Kristen are dear friends of Grant's from high school, and I had to knit something adorable for their first child. Check out the Christmas 1999 Gallery to see some other examples of Wallabies. |
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| Brian and Kristen also have a wonderful little girl, Nicole, and I knit these socks for her while we were waiting for her to make her debut. I put the (25g) balls of yarn in the picture to see just how tiny these socks are. I can't tell you how many people picked them up & just squealed over how cute they are. Katy and John's Charlotte also got a pair of these adorable little socks. |
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| Here's another example of a pinwheel blanket. For some psychotic reason, I had to knit this in the round, though, rather than as separate spokes, which is fine until I realized how unpleasant it was to mix stranding and intarsia without using the Estonian technique of knitting intarsia sections backwards in the round. |
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| The one thing my sister asked for when she was pregnant with their first child was a woven baby-blanket. When I had indeed woven a baby-blanket and tied the box with the loom-waste (in a very lovely bow, which I should have photographed), she was nonetheless clueless when opening the package. I thought I was making it obvious. I'm exceptionally happy with the cotton/rayon blend blanket. It is machine washable (cold water), but Katie never has really gotten to use it. |
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| Here are a few more views of Katie's blanket. |
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| When my colleague, Marla, told me she was preggers, I knew she would need something really special for her child, so I headed off to my local knit shop to see what fabs little baby-things Nancy could show me, and I found this great pattern for a "Gull Wing" baby sweater by Elizabeth Zimmerman. The Baby Sesia yarn is exquisite for this project, and my friend Annie wants an adult version of the sweater. |
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| Here,I am working on a baby blanket for Charles Emery Meyers Cutting (a.k.a. Charlie) at his baby shower. The blanket uses Sugar -n- Cream Cotton, a worsted weight cotton, in eight colors. In this picture, I'm working on the fourth of eight panels that form a spiral, all converging in the center. I actually finished this project the day after Charlie was born! Usually, I'm lucky to get a project like this done before the kid's out of diapers. We also catered this baby shower. |
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| In this picture, I'm actually working on the baby blanket. I usually knit everything on circular needles so that I can just push the work to the center when I'm not working on it (which feels safer than point protectors), but the cotton was so heavy and the stitches did not have enough elasticity to easily slip up over the join and back onto the working portion of the circular needle from the cable portion of the needle. |  |
This is the finished baby blanket for Charlie. I should point out that the blanket is almost circular when viewed from directly above, and as tall as his father is, he wasn't quite tall enough... You can see the blanket without Charlie, too. |  |
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I knit this christening gown for my niece, Katie, but she never got to wear
it basically because it did not fit at two years of age, which is when she
was finally christened. I'm glad I'm not the only one in the family who
procrastinates...
The yarn is Rowan's Wool and Cotton (a 50/50 blend). Oakleaf edging surrounds traveling vine lace (I forget where I found these lace patterns, but they were probably in one of Barbara Walker's books, like everything else). I used a pale-grey-green ribbon in the bodice to allow for a variable size at christening, only I didn't envision it taking as long to happen as it did, and the gown was just not the right proportion even though it was possible to stretch it enough to get her into it at that age. Sigh... My sister's next child was a boy, and my brother-in-law was either too tradition (or not traditional enough) to put him in a gown. |
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| I knit this bunny all-in-one for my niece, Katie. I think the pattern is one of Debbie Bliss'. The pink ears, white "cotton" tail (which was actually mohair), and the Beatrix Potter buttons are my favorite details. Unfortunately, Katie didn't get to wear this very much because she grew out of it almost immediately when the weather was such that she needed something that warm. I used alpaca yarn that I got on a cone for a song in Santa Barbara. I hated the color for a sweater for me, but it worked extremely well for this project. Katie's little brother, John, got to wear this outfit for halloween this past year, and I'm really bummed that I don't have a picture of him in it. Instead, "Floppy Fred" the blue-jeans doll gets to model. |
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