Knitting for baby

There is something oddly calming and happy about knitting something for a baby, even if there isn't one coming yet. Maybe that is why I am completely obsessed with knitting for babies at the moment, whether it is for my nephew or to put away for future babies. I just can't seem to get enough of the baby patterns. I love making anything for baby, booties, hats, sweaters, bibs, blankets, and stuffed animals felted or not. If it's for baby I probably love it. Right now I have an obsession with making baby jumpers.







The great thing about knitting for baby is you know there will always be a baby or child to fit the item. That is great forme since i hate to gauge and swatch, a bad habit I am going to have to break if I ever want to make myself a sweater.





Knitting for a dog or cat seems to be just about as calming as knitting for a baby.

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knitting for charity

When my dad died December 16, 2006 I thought it was the end of the world. I had no clue what to do. I was only 21 and my dad was so young. I felt like I hadn't had enough time with him, and I wished I had never been mean to him. I didn't think I would ever get through it, and I never thought the pain would stop. I thought absolutely nothing could help me.

I talked to my mom and a friend who had lost their father, but it didn't make me feel any better. Then January came. I went into my local yarn shop (LYS), Finely a knitting party, and she was doing a charity. Knitted baby hats for sick kids at CHOP. I thought "why not", took her several different patterns, and some yarn, and went home. I sat down and started to knit, slowly at first and then faster and faster as I thought about losing my dad and how much it hurt to lose him.

I knit one hat, then two, then three, then four. By the end of the fourth hat I had ran out of time to knit anymore for the CHOP charity. I handed them in, but wanted to do more to help, so I went into my stash and knit four more to put away for the next year. They never made it to the next year, I started to give them to people at the knitting shop I knew were having a baby or a grand baby. (As it turned out, the January charity changed from CHOP hats to slippers for interim house so at least the hats went to a baby who could wear it.)April came, and again I put down my projects and picked up a pattern and yarn from the LYS, this time for dishcloths for nursing homes, I made three for the nursing home and 3 or four for my nephew who was yet to be born. September came, and it was pumpkin hat time, I only had time to make one for CHOP in the middle of all my Christmas knitting which I had started in June, and might I say I knit quite a lot for Christmas last year.

As I knit these items for charity, my nephew, and other family members, I noticed I wasn't crying quiet as much. I was still very sad and it still hurt that I lost him, but everything seemed easier. I realized I was knitting through, the hurt, the sadness, and even the anger. Almost a year and a half later, the pain and sadness is still there, but I have learned how to live and knit with it. In fact I have learned to knit through all pain, might it be a hurt shoulder, or being in the hospital, the knitting seems to help. I actually can't stand when I can't be knitting, especially because my stomach hurts so much from who knows what that I can't even concentrate on something as simple as knit one row, purl one row.

I plan to keep knitting for my family, and for charity. I am always trying to find a great AIDS charity to knit for, since I know and knew people with the disease and I wanted to help them in anyway possible, even if it was something as simple as a knitted hat, scarf, or mittens, just to give them something that would remind them that someone out there cared about them, even though they don't know them, and hopefully put a smile on there face. Knitting is definitely a cure for just about everything.

The first four hats I made for CHOP.

Sleeveless top

I love my nephew dealry, but this is probably the last sweater I will make him, atleast in the right size. He is 10 months old and growing like and weed. He keeps growing taller and is already wearing 24 months. I will probably only ever make him stuffed animals, hats, scarves, mittens, and maybe a Wonderful Wallaby-but everything to grow into, of course.

Right now I am making him a sleeveless top or tank top for his birthday in July, in the biggest size. I just hope he doesnt outgrow it before I give it to him, or even worse, before I finish it. It is a great pattern and fun to knit. I already finished the back and am about half done the front. Only the button bands, pocket, and sewing it together to go.

I learned a great trick that I am going to do, to ensure he doesn't pull off the buttons, I am going to knit them in as if they are beads- only works on shank buttons of course. Just have to pick out the perfect buttons. It's between white elephants, or light blue, black or yellow smiley faces.

I just realized that he will outgrow it in one week, so I put this sweater on-hold.

Great lotion!

Lotion. Everyone uses it, especially knitters, and they always pass on information about the best ones. Well I found a great one! It is great for Eczema, Psoriasis, and Rosacea. It can also stop an itch caused by chemical irritants in seconds (I know because I use it all the time for itchy skin in the hospital). A little bit goes a long way, and it dries quickly so you can pick up your knitting after you apply the lotion. It moisturizes better than Eucerine (I have information proving it.) It is chemical free and works great on dogs too ( my dog had dry ears and it heaqled them quickly.)

If you would like to try this lotion, email me with your name and phone number subject lotion and I will help you get this lotion into your home.
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Mystery Swap package

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE! My package arrived today and I was SO excited to see what my theme was and what I got!
Theme: Bunnies, because I told charkins that I would love an Angora bunny. Obviously she couldn't buy me one, so she just worked around bunnies. So cute.

Package: I opened the package to find 3 different kinds of dark chocolate, because I happened to mention that I LOVE chocolate the darker the better. I dug a little deeper to find a ziploc bag containy cute 3D little bunny stickers, (even one put on my notecard) pink, brown, and off-white embordery thread, 4 wooden buttons, and 3 knitting inspired appliques. She also include #9 bamboo needles and 5 adorable bunny stitch markers. The pattern is an ultra cute knitted, felted, jointed rabbit. I recived one each of pink, white, and brown cascade 220 which matches the embordery thread very well. At the very bottom she included the left overs from an Anogora project, so I could actually work with the yarn I long to work with and perhaps make bunny a scarf with it.

My thoughts: LOVE IT! I love how she took my want for an Angora rabbit and twisted it into this awesome package. I also love how she took into thought my obsession for knitting baby items at this moment in time. This great thoughtful project, will probably end up being a gift for my 10 month old nephew, whom I was having such a problem coming up with a knitted Christmas present idea for, since he is constantly out-growing his clothes.

Chemical free (green) living...

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They have products that can help with Eczema, Psoriasis, and Rosacea. Going green could help with Asthma and allergies. ADD, or ADHD, diabetes, and some other health problems also losing weight all things this green company has products for and all chemical free.

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WARNING

WARNING
This is just a little of me and my life. All rantings are just my opinions! I DO NOT MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE! If I do offend anyone, I'M SORRY! Most entries will be about knitting, my nephew, animals(which are my children), my work with a few random rants thrown in. If you don't like what I'm saying, don't read it.
With that said, enjoy!

A rant about....

Listening. Usually a big argument between parents and children and in all short-term or long-term relationship. A big problem in many ways, if one person doesn't listen everything can get screwed up.

Let's take knitting first. If you don't listen to the pattern or directions, or whomever might be teaching or just helping you out with the current project it won't turn out right. Listening when reading a pattern to yourself is different than normal listen, in that you have to follow what is written. In the same aspect, if the pattern writer wrote a lousy pattern and didn't amend it in any way, listening to the pattern in it's current lousy form, won't work either.


What I really want to rant about is listening in hospitals. Doctors, nurses, aids, and patients all need to talk and LISTEN to each other. More often then not you tell the doctor that medicine won't help, but he won't listen, so you tell the next doctor, he says ok and he will fix it. A few hours later no change and you ask the nurse for the meds or whatever you were waiting for and it's exactly what you told the doctor you knew wouldn't help. So you tell the nurse, and still no change. Or you tell a nurse you are lighted head and NPO, but want nutrients in your IV, and the nurse then proceeds to yell at you, saying you are NPO and can't eat even though you already knew that and were asking for nutrients through you IV. You finally get through to the thickheaded nurse 5 minutes later and get what you had been asking for the whole time. Does anyone ever listen to you, when you are in the hospital.

Knitting with pain...

I had my appendix out, you think the pain would be over, WRONG! More intense pain and the doctors don’t know what it is this time, since my appendix just came out and it had been my appendix.

Normally I would just knit through the pain and all would be fine, but the pain is so intense I can’t even hold the needles, let alone concetrate hard enough to do the simplest in knitting. Knit one row, purl one row repeat until some odd inches then follow pattern again.

The last time I tried to pick up the beautiful tank top I am knitting for my 10 month old nephew I dropped 4 stitches off my needles, before I even started knitting. That’s always fun, pull out the knitting and lose stitches, you know you are having problems then.

Dealing with pain without your knitting is hard enough, but not being able to knit becasue of your pain is even harder, especially when you are a knit-a-holic like me.

Knitting to get through it…

The pain couldn’t possibly ever be worse than not knowing what wrong with you and you are stuck in the hospital for nearly two weeks. Thank god for knitting! I don’t know what I would have done if I didnt have my knitting with me the whole time. Now just waiting to go home.