Half way there | Le Challenge {Knitting}

Monday 14 July 2014


This month's theme was SMALL... Honestly I am not a fan of themes that are this open - too many options blocks me. However, it happens that we have found it something rather special about a little someone who is making me fast becoming a whale. 

I know many of my pregnant friends were and are happy not to find out the sex of the baby - I just have to know. It means we can decide on names, and as these have to work in both English and French - and we have to like them - it is really hard. Also I thought it might be nice for Baby MiH to learn the name of his sibling - or making up the same version of it!  



So a small knitting project to celebrate the half way point of my pregnancy, in two colours - and yes I was very pleased with my idea of a egg-cosy. Aren't they the cutest - most superfluous items - I could have made? 

In case you are interested in this ultra-complicated pattern, here it is: 

CO 20, 2x2 ribbing on 18 rows, and then R19 decrease ( k2tog, p2tog) 5 times, R20: k10; R21: k2tog 5 times. 

I knitted both in 4 mm DPNs - the pink yarn is Rowan Purelife Organic Cotton Naturally Dyed DK (now discontinued - why oh why?), and the blue yarn is Twilleys Echo recycled pure cotton DK yarn



I made the mini pompoms using a fork - I find a good tutorial on Mollie Makes website, but they are not as good as they look on the tutorial. However they were really easy and quick to make - all you want for a small project... 

SO you made it to here... Are you ready for it? 


Makes it real right! A house of full of boys and I - and a solution to not being able to reach anything too high up in the house! Good thing I have a lot of blue yarn in my stash.   

You can visit le challenge to see the other small makes!

If you've made a 'small' project or one that relates to the theme then link up your finished project on the le challenge blog for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop. Anyone can link up with any type of craft project as long as it was made in the past month!

16 comments:

  1. Huge congratulations Nat! So exciting and you get to use all the cute jumpers, hats and cardies you made again! The egg cosies are adorable and so whimsical! I can't stop grinning, another sweet baby MiH boy :) xxx

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  2. These are cute. Congrats on the BIG news though :-) I had to know as well.

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  3. Congratulations! How lovely that mini BabyMIH will get to wear his big brother's cute homemade handmedowns too!

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  4. Yes, I am totally with you on needing to know - especially with the second! Such cute egg cosies!

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  5. Ho'omaka'i! These cozies are so cute. I am the type where I must know. It's fun picking out names and shopping for little clothes.

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  6. Congratulations, Nat! These egg cozies are adorable, and what a cute way to announce the gender of your newest addition :)
    xox,
    Cee

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  7. Congratulations Nat - little boys are delightful bundles of energy and mess that grow up into delightful young men. My boys 16 and 12 are just lovely and yours will be too. Way to go!

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  8. This is the sweetest post :-)
    Congrats!

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  9. oh my gosh, congratulations!!! How exciting. And those egg cozy hat are super cute, too.

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  10. Congrats! How lovely to have brother for baby MIH. At first, when I saw both hats I thought you meant twins :)

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  11. Congrats on another boy and good luck on yoie future house full of teenagers ☺

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  12. Oh my, they are gorgeous diddy hats! How exciting, another boy :)

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  13. awww.. Congratulations, and I love your egg-cosy, every time I see something you make I really really wish I could knit.

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  14. Congratulations! What a wonderful way to make this announcement! Love those hats!

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  15. P.S. Keep the pink hat... you never know!

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