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announcing …

announcing …

Happy Sunday everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebrating your blessings! We celebrated by finally welcoming Baby (thank You, Lord!) into our family on Friday morning:

– Olivia Jane –
6:47 am
8 lbs, 4 oz, 20 1/2″ long

Everything went really well! We delivered at home and it may have been our best birth yet – only 5 1/2 hours from when I woke up I was holding her in my arms. :)

I’ll be adding lots more photos of our new darling on Instagram (you can follow me here). We love her so much already!

My sister is helping keep the shop up while I’m recovering and soaking in Olivia, so remember to stop by early tomorrow morning for your Cyber Monday coupon codes! The link will be here and on the facebook page so you won’t miss it :)

her own blankie {and burp cloths, too!}

her own blankie {and burp cloths, too!}

I’ve made up a baby blanket for both Emma Grace and Ian using the Scallop Quilt “pattern” from Bend-the-Rules Sewing by Amy Karol, and so of course I wanted to make one for Baby, too. :)

I’ve been making up the “just for her” things in shades of gray and pink, and was able to find some lovely polka dot gray quilting flannel and pink and gray paisley cotton at JoAnn. I love how they complement each other, sweet and feminine without being too babyish.

I machine quilted a few of the center paisleys to provide a bit more definition. I love how it looks …. maybe I should quilt a few more of them? :)

Now, after having 2 babies, we have plenty of burp cloths. But there were some fabric scraps left over from the blankie …. and I had a few plain diapers left …. and Baby #3 needs to have something special, too, right?

This vintage lace was a gift from one of my lovely customers – who just happens to live in France. :) Fun!
I sewed it over some gray grosgrain, which I then layered over some pink satin to get the look I was going after.

And there you have it – a bit of a layette for Baby.

Remember to stop by the Facebook page next Monday morning to get the sale code!

And have a lovely, relaxing Thanksgiving!

<3

more knitting for Baby – a cuddly cocoon

more knitting for Baby – a cuddly cocoon

So, the up side of Baby delaying is that I’ve been able to get some of the things I had planned for her finished. :) Such as this sweet Baby Bunting:

Button Up Baby Wrap Pattern | the Path Less Traveled

Specs: Button-Up Baby Wrap, free Ravelry pattern
size 19 needles
triple ply yarn
The yarn is similar to Bamboo & Ewe and quite yummy. :)
A pair of vintage buttons – they seem to be similar to Bakelite, but I’m really not sure what their made of. Fun though!

Knitting for Baby - a cuddly cocoon | the Path Less Traveled
Knitting for Baby - a cuddly cocoon | the Path Less Traveled

And there you have it! It was a quick knit, and fun to see it make up. My first project on needles this large, too!

And remember to stop by the facebook page early Monday morning to get the coupon code for 30% off of the shop!

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new items in the shop :)

new items in the shop :)

Happy Monday everyone!

To kick off the week I’ve got some new things in the shop to show you …. more bags!
This time I had a bunch of fun styling some baby boy and girl themed ones. :)

It was fun to pull together all the baby things I’ve got in the shop right now – banners, “BABY” cupcake toppers and “IT’S A BOY/IT’S A GIRL” ones, too!

But all those extras weren’t the focus of these photos, nope! The reason for these were the new pink and blue sets of bags – aren’t they just so sweet?!

I hope you love them just as much as I do :D

have a wonderful Monday, and a wonderful week, too!

xo

more knitting for Baby

more knitting for Baby

The next installment in Baby’s mommy-mades :)

I’ve had this pattern pinned on my knitting board for a while, and finally got it made up! It was the sweetest thing to work, and now I want to make another …. maybe after I get a few other things made up first, though?

 I knit it up using some lovely gray wool, and I have no idea which kind! The label has been off of it and missing almost since I brought it home :)

 The pink stripe is leftover from the little sweater I made her, and there’s just enough left of that pink to do a matching hat with a stripe for Em (matching hats for the little girlies – how fun!).

 The pattern is a freebie called Bananahead Baby Hat and features a cuffed 2×2 rib brim with two little I-cords on the top to tie into a bow. :)

Now, it just needs a baby girl to arrive to fill it with chubby sweetness. You can come any time you’re ready, Darling Babe!

knitting for Baby

knitting for Baby

 I’ve finally been getting some little mommy mades ready for Baby #3! One of the sweaters I had been wanting to make for her was the Puerperium sweater that I found on Pinterest, and when I found some sweet colored yarn to make it with it was only a matter of getting started (which is no small feat sometimes!).

 this little buddy is sooooooo excited to meet his baby sister :)

 I used “I Love This Cotton” in Rosy by Yarn Bee, knowing that it was heavier than what the pattern called for and would turn out just a bit bigger than the 0-6 weeks size the pattern was written for.
Well, it did turn out bigger. Probably about a 3-6 month size?
I’ll let you exactly how much bigger once she’s here to try it on. :)

 The buttons are vintage ones that I found at in a big jar at a yard sale a few years ago. They’re wood look-a-likes, but probably out of some hard plastic.

This sweater is so soft and cozy! I can picture it with leggings over a long-sleeve onesie with her rolls of baby chubbiness …… oh, can hardly wait!

If I have time before she arrives, I’m hoping to knit up another (with long sleeves) somewhat closer to a newborn size. It’s such a sweet and easy pattern, and goes quite quickly (once you actually start …. :D)

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shop (and family!) news

shop (and family!) news

drum-roll …. thank you.

You can now use your own credit card to purchase items from the shop! Yippee! This means that you no longer have to use Paypal if you don’t want to.

and now for the family news ….

 yep. (If you’ve been following me on Pinterest, you might have guessed.)
We are expecting # 3 to arrive the second week of November! We were a bit surprised, but are totally thrilled! Although it can be a little difficult to be excited about it when I’m worn out with exhaustion before the kids are even ready for their naps. : ) So far I’m feeling pretty well most of the time, which is such a blessing!
There are so many projects for this baby that I’d love to do and we are trying to decide if we’ll find out if it’s a boy or a girl. If we don’t, I think I might do a bunch of knitting and sewing for him/her in gray. And white!

And I have to decide what I’ll be doing about a maternity leave from the shop. It’s still far away (well, 28 (+) weeks away), but it’s coming up! I certainly don’t want to leave you wonderful friends and customers in the lurch through Christmas, but know I’d hate every moment I was away from the new bundle of sweetness. So, lots of thoughts! I’ll let you know once plans for it are solidified. : )

Love to you all!
for remembering: small, sweet and dimpled

for remembering: small, sweet and dimpled

I just clipped 40 tiny nails: 20 fingers and 20 toes, and 2 chubby, dimpled toddlers worth.
As I was clipping I kept thinking “these fingers and toes will never be this small and sweet again, not even tomorrow. Em and Ian are shooting up like weeds and I need to savor them.”

So, once we were finished I sat them next to each other on the couch (even though they were ready to dash off and play) and took a few photos of those fingers and toes.

And then they hopped down and got back to their playing.

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