Sleepy Lisa.

This past Saturday, Gord and I drove into Kansas City to attend Julie & Louis’ baby shower (mama-to-be is absolutely glowing). In addition to some Babies-R-Us stuff (no B-R-Us in Topeka - how weird is that!), I knit up a baby bonnet and some booties. Baby stuff is so much fun to make - its small, cute, and knits up fast.

Just for fun, here is Sarken the snow leopard trying on the knits:

For the bonnet, I used a fantastic pattern by Adrian of Hello Yarn. I learned a new cast on technique - the figure 8 - which will come in handy in future projects I’m sure. I did not get even close to getting gauge with the yarn I used (Rowan Calmer) so I had to knit the adult hat in order to get it to fit an infant head!

I had leftover yarn and wanted to make some matching booties so I dug around my pattern books and found a fun one in “Morehouse Farm Merino Knits“. Very easy to make - garter stitch with some stockinette stitch short rows to make the bridge of the bootie. I made the laces out of leftover Koigu KPPPM - makes it more girlie looking for a little girl baby. I was going to cross stitch some hearts on the bonnet but after I did a few tests, I thought that the backside would be too scratchy on a babies head, so instead I opted for some cute little “barrettes” on the bonnet ears.

Overall, I believe it was a success. Here’s a photo of the happy parents-to-be opening their gift.

and here’s a photo of me & Gord and Sarah, a former co-worker of mine at Cerner.

I’m still plugging along on Rogue. I hope to be done in the next week. Photos to follow.