Yellowy yarn

Before getting into the FO's I have to thank the anonymous Knitty RAKer who sent me these goodies a few weeks back!

Some acrylic scraps for my toy making stash and watermelon pop rocks! Yum!! It really made my day. :-)

Lately I've been trying my hardest to be good and use up some of the oodles of yarn I have stashed away instead of buying more and more and more. I had a skein of pale yellow Bernat Softee Baby that I bought eons ago that I figured would be perfect to whip up some baby things. Only this pregnant brain of mine is having a hard time judging yarn amounts these days! I started with a sweater.. then had so much leftover I made a pair of booties and a soaker. And I STILL have enough to make at least a couple of hats or another pair of booties or... SOMETHING.

So much for stash busting. I think I need a break from the yellow yarn...

The sweater is the Placket Neck Pullover from Knitting for Baby. Knit on size 6 needles completely in the round which meant (woohoo!) virtually no seaming.

Here's the finished sweater once I'd added the beads (randomly picked from a variety pack I bought at JoAnn's).

And a close up of the beads...

The booties were the Stay On Baby Booties pattern also from Knitting for Baby and the soaker was a free pattern I found here.

I'm not sure what I'll do next. Maybe some more soakers. We aren't using cloth diapers but I love how cute knitted soakers look! Since I don't have to worry about using wool I can probably do quite a bit of stash busting cranking out those. Or maybe I'll do that striped cardigan I've been talking about for ages...

Oh, the joys of an indecisive mind!

Reincarnated

Some of you might remember this sweater from waaay back in November.

If you do then wow, thanks for sticking around my blog for so long. :-D And you might also remember that this not-so-fashionable sweater became my very first ever yarn recycling project.

Oh I had such great ambitions for where this sweater could go, what it could become, it's ultimate yarny destiny. Then I let it sit in the closet for 7 months. Waiting. Patiently.

Well the wait is finally over for two balls of this recycled brown chenille. It came out of the dark depths of my closet and was lovingly cast on to make a gift for my future daughter.

It took two weeks of putting down the needles every time I got distracted by hubby's video game, reading the DaVinci code, organizing the nursery... but last night it was finally finished.

I would like you to meet my very first Baby Bobbi Bear.

I cannot wait to give him to my baby girl.The stacks of handknit items I have stored in her closet are worth more to me than all of the baby gear in the world. I can only hope she'll grow up to be a knitter like her mom so she can experience the thrill of creating something out of nothing but a ball of yarn, some sticks, and a whole lot of love.