Half way there | Le Challenge {Knitting}

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!