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October 10, 2007
What's cooking
Thank you, gentle readers. You're always there when I have a question, sharing your ideas, and there even when I am too tired to respond. The little boy (I have every reason to believe) who is cooking away inside is a tiring little loaf indeed - his feet bundled under my right rib cage make sitting in an upright position ungainly, uncomfortable and inelegant (huffing, puffing, groaning) all at once. I am starting to feel that I may have been over-ambitious in planning to start my leave just two weeks before the due date... little loaf may have different plans for us.
Regarding the Biggy Print, I found the inspiration I was looking for here. With each week that passes, the book deadline looms nearer and the chances of me knitting anything for myself that will be worn while still a non-parent, or even when newly a parent, recede, but it's fun to daydream. If the next batch of patterns goes seamlessly (it would be the first), I may find a few spare hours between the end of work and the arrival of the loaf.
Meanwhile, newborn sizes are far easier to justify, and I am not a superstitious mama. In fact, every fibre of my being wants only to knit for loaf... I force myself to observe other commitments.
The navy cardigan and stripy hat are newborn size. The brown is a genuine EZ surprise: a photocopied sheet was handed to my mother by a knitting friend of hers, without benefit of any pictures or diagrams, the only description being a handwritten note, 'This is an Elizabeth Zimmerman design, great for leftovers'. So using leftovers from an intarsia design from the book, I commenced, and finished up with what seems to be a double-breasted version of the baby surprise. Considerably larger than newborn size. But I'm sure he will find use for it, even in his first winter, as a warm outer layer with the sleeves rolled up.
I had had this in mind for a baby surprise jacket, but having had one surprise I don't feel much need for another. Do you have a delightful baby pattern up your sleeve, which would work in 350 yards of STR Heavyweight?
A dull post - but I fear I am rather dull at present. Forgive me.
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