Knitting/Announcement Post ~ An Easy Peasy Baby Blanket pattern

I don't know if I have mentioned it here on the blog yet or not but I am making the official announcement right now....I am going to be an AUNT in March!  I'm excited and a little bit freaked out too.  It's been awhile since we've had a newborn in the family!  So I've been searching all over the Internet for gender neutral (because we won't know the gender for a little bit yet) knitting patterns.

I found this called Sunny Baby Blanket on Ravelry and I'm totally going to be knitting this up.  I think I might even make a couple of them just because it looks like an extremely easy and quick knit.  Here is the link to the pattern if you are interested.

Knitting Projects part duex

I am in the process of making headway on several Christmas presents.  One of these projects is going to be the Three Irish Girls Samovar Shawl.  I picked up this pattern at my local yarn shop and can hardly wait to get started on it.  I will also be using this pattern to create a baby blanket.  It should be really interesting, this will be the first time that I've ever done cables.

The colorways that I'm using for the Christmas present verson of this pattern are McNamara (which is the first photo here) and Saoirse (Seer-Sha) which is the second photo.  I haven't started this project yet.  I need to finish the Miami Vice shawl first, I need the circular needle that I'm using for that project.

 

 

 

       

It's beginning to look a lot like....

Christmas!  Haha.  Not really.  I just started knitting up a couple of projects that will eventually be Christmas presents.  I started the shawl that I am making for my sister in law yesterday.  I found the pattern on ravelry and I thought it was pretty cool...especially considering the patterns name is "Miami Vice."

The finished product is supposed to look like this:



So far mine looks like this:

The yarn and colorway that I'm using is Three Irish Girls McClellan Fingering weight in the colorway Ryan...Which looks a little something like this:





The other project that I've got going is the Baby Fan Blanket,  another pattern that I found on ravelry.  Only this blanket will not be a baby blanket.  I'm knitting it up for my aunt who's name I have drawn this year for our family Christmas.

This is what it's supposed to look like when it's done (photo is borrowed from the pattern):



I haven't started it yet, I had to special order the yarn that I'm going to use to knit this project up.  The yarn I'm using is called Mochi Plus and I'm using the colorway Leaves and Sprouts, which is a variegated green colorway.

If your on ravelry you can find me as sheeplesinthecity.