Expectant moms beware!

I may end up giving you all cardigans for your babies!!! (Well maybe not all but it might get close!)

Let me tell you I have found the easiest baby cardigan to ever make! It is called Felix's Cardigan and it is so EASY! I had previously chose the Baby Surprise Jacket for my first "clothing" item but as simple as it was I just couldn't get the pattern and with all those charts to follow I was just overwhelmed. Which led me to search Ravelry far and wide to find this pattern. I LOVE IT! I will be keeping the first one because well it is my first sweater/cardigan. I highly recommend this pattern to anyone who is sort of antsy about making a clothing item. With all the baby yarn I have stashed (when my life wasn't so busy I was making baby hats and giving them away) I think I will start making a lot of these little guys. They are just so fun and it has only taken me three evenings to get this far and I am a slow knitter. Below are a couple of pictures of the first one in progress--- I still need to add sleeves and buttons to it.




This sweater will only end up costing me about $0.53 because I bought the yarn on clearance for $0.50! Plus I have a button stash my grandmother gave me for Christmas one year and I have all the buttons already I just need to three out.
This one will be going in my hope chest since it is my first one but the next two or three will definitely be gifts for people I know that are having babies.
I have also been working on my toe up socks. Heaven knows, I think I will try to covert every pattern I want to knit into toe ups because it just easier in my opinion. I just need to perfect my sewn bind off a little bit more and definitely learn how to do the picot bind off.
Here is an updated picture of the Hedwig patterned socks --- I'm still on the first one, but I have turned the heel. I have been busy making a lot of dishclothes for co-workers at work for birthdays and Christmas.



Thankfuls:

1. I am thankful for learning this incredible new pattern.
2. I am thankful that my coworkers have loved their new dishclothes.
3. I am thankful for clearances.