Tied Baby quilt from Max and Bunny Fabric for Becca

August 29, 2014 by shelley

Tied Baby quilt (fabric from Max and Bunny) for Becca’s about to be born daughter!

Becca is a new featured designer with her Max & Bunny line at Andover Fabric. (Andover Fabric is a wholesaler, but lots of places are starting to sell her line: i.e. Fabric.com and several sites on Etsy: The Fabric Cobbler, You Made Something, Stitch Stash Diva, Forever Patchwork. Andover Fabric also carries the Downton Abbey line.) I decided to use some of Becca’s fabric to tie a baby quilt for her soon to be born daughter. Since she is having a girl I went with the pink.

Baby Quilt for Becca’s new baby using her designer fabric from Andover fabrics.

I first laid out the fabric and batting and reverse side fabric and pinned all over.

I decided not to use a heavy yarn to tie it…it is such a clean, crisp design I decided to use embroidery floss. I debated between the yellow and pink but decided on the pink.

I placed the ties geometrically and evenly spaced.

I folded over the top to create a hem and blind stitched the hem.

Mitered corners on the hem.

Clipped the ties.

Finished baby blanket!

Knitted baby sweater for new granddaughter…

August 4, 2014 by shelley

Knitted baby sweater for new granddaughter…

Knitted baby cardigan sweater

Becca is having a baby girl. I asked her to pick out a knitted sweater pattern that I could knit for her new baby. She chose an off-white classic sweater with wooden buttons. It turned out really adorable!

Knitted Baby Sweater and Hat

Knitted Baby Sweater

I used a free pattern from the website Ravelry.

Or you can download it here: Sunnyside Baby Cardigan

Sunnyside Baby Cardigan

Becca wanted the “boy version”, with the straight edge. For the hat I used a plain hat pattern and changed it to match the sweater with the border on the bottom and the cabling (like the sweater) evenly distributed around the hat.

The yarn I used was Tanis Purple Label Cashmere Sock and I loved it…so soft!

I used the color “natural” and I ordered it from eatsleepknit@eatsleepknit.com (both the sweater and hat was made from one skein of yarn-making the 3-6 month size).

Wooden buttons were ordered from Etsy’s buttonsbraidsandmore (25 Pcs – 1 Lot, Coffee 4 Holes Round Wood Sewing Buttons 11mm(3/8″) Dia).

Knitted Baby Sweater

Adorable baby gift…cardigan and bonnet by Sirdar

January 27, 2014 by shelley

I decided to make a cardigan and sweater for a baby gift to Ellen Riley’s first granddaughter. (Karen’s baby Emerson…Karen is my daughter Jennifer’s good friend and has been ever since they were tiny children.) I found the pattern to knit this beautiful cardigan and bonnet by Sirdar (It can be found on the internet at Patternfish…sorry…this one I cannot share for free.) But I will say it does work up very quickly. It took a bit of a learning curve for me since this was the first time I worked with English abbreviations (as in Great Britain- English) not American knitting abbreviations. But thank goodness for the internet.

Baby cardigan and bonnet

It turned out beautiful!

Hand Knit Baby Bonnet

Hand Knit Baby Cardigan and Bonnet

Sweetheart sweater for sweetheart Caroline.

November 5, 2013 by shelley

Having already made a sweater for my grandchildren Becca, Henry and Jack (last year) I decided it was time to get out the knitting needles again. Caroline has not received one so I decided hers would be the first one I did this time around. I found an adorable sweater and hat called Sweetheart Sweater Set (the knitting pattern is a free download). (Or here’s a pdf copy of sweetheart sweater set knitting pattern).

Sweetheart sweater set

Matching hat with tassel

Adorable pull-over sweater

Links to knitting projects:

Henry’s sweater

Jack’s sweater

Becca’s sweater

Adorable knitted baby hats: Strawberry hat, lemon hat, watermelon hat and bunny hat.

Pattern for Sweetheart Sweater Set

Sweetheart sweater set

Pictures of Caroline in her sweater:

Caroline in sweater and hat

Caroline in sweater and hat with Jen

Caroline in Sweater

Caroline in sweater

Adorable knit baby hats; strawberry, watermelon, lemon and bunny knit baby hat.

June 19, 2013 by shelley

I signed up for the vintage fashion show by donating hand knit baby hats. One week before the fashion show I decided I better get busy. I found a cute pattern on line for a strawberry knit baby hat. I used the same pattern and adjusted it to make a watermelon knit baby hat and a lemon knit baby hat. I also found a cute pattern for a bunny hat. The strawberry hat was so cut I had to make one for my granddaughter Caroline. She of course wore it to pick strawberries.

Sweet Caroline in strawberry hat picking sweet strawberries.

Caroline picking strawberries in strawberry hat.

The strawberry hat:

Adorable strawberry knit baby hat.

Instructions for strawberry knit hat.

Updated and clarified!

Knitted Strawberry Hat Pattern (instructions will download in .doc format) or Knitted Strawberry Hat Pattern (instructions will download in .pdf format).

Update: I have sent this pattern out many, many times and I have no idea how many people have downloaded the pattern. But I recently heard from someone that downloaded the strawberry hat pattern and hit a snag trying to following the directions…and I thought she was right it was not quite right…just not very clear. I have clarified and updated the instructions so they reflect the changes so they are now much easier to follow. She completed her strawberry hat and sent a picture of it to me! It turned out gorgeous!! A big thank you to Lindsey Tsuboi!!! Here is her hat:

Lindsey’s strawberry hat

Variations on the same theme…..

And with slight alterations I made a watermelon hat and a lemon hat:

Watermelon Knit Baby Hat

A lemon knit baby hat:

Lemon Knit Baby Hat

And finally a bunny knit baby hat (the bunny hat is a different pattern-it is more difficult than the others:

Knit Baby Bunny Hat

Instructions for knit baby bunny hat:

pdf format Bunny beanie pattern | BabyCenter