What I've been making - April

 Thank you for all the lovely comments on the safe arrival of Freddie, he is absolutely gorgeous and has been really chilled in his first week, considering.  He was quite marked and had bruising from the forceps, he still has a little bit around one eye but it is fading a little bit every day.  I didn't realise they used forceps with a ceserean.  Steve was told it was a difficult birth with him being so low down in her pelvis, so no wonder she is so sore.

I managed to get one pair of socks finished during April.

These are knitted in Yarn Smiths sock yarn, it's lovely and soft to knit with but a bit on the splitty side, I think they came out lovely though.

Obviously there has been baby knitting going on for a few months too.  I've only knitted a few cardigans and one blanket as we will be going into the warmer weather, I will knit a few things for the Autumn/Winter in the coming months.

These two are from commecial patterns and seamed together

The white cardigan below is the Baby Aosta cardigan, (pattern on Ravelry) and is knit top down.  While I do like knitting top down I much prefer how a seamed cardigan looks and fits.   Having said that I have alomost finished another Baby Aosta cardigan in a bigger size and It does look better than in the smaller size.

My favourite make is this baby blanket.  When Stevie sent me the link to the pattern and asked me to make it I thought It would be too difficult, I'm ok at basic crochet but not fancy stitches.

But the pattern was so clearly written and there were no fancy stitches so I finished it in about a week.  Absolutely loved making it.  The pattern if anyone is interested is the One Stitch at a Time blanket by Kerry Jayne Designs.  The pattern also includes instructions for a large sofa throw in the same design too.

Yes all but one of the baby makes are cream, Stevie is the queen of cream, lol.  We knew early on that she was having a boy but she still wanted neutral colours, I must say that I prefer baby clothes to be white or neutral too, especially when they are tiny.

Can you beleive It's the end of April?  A third of the year gone already, goodness!  We are having some nice weather at last though, after what seemed like months and months of rain were seeing some lovely sunny days.  I mentioned before how I don't like the lighter nights but I'm trying to pace myself and not find things to do just because it's daylight. lol.

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