knitting

A little post to show how the baby blanket is progressing. I am managing to do a little every night. I am on the cast off as the edge is made stitches are cast off. I am about half way through this process I am hoping to have it finished by the end of the month

Baby things

I have been very restrained and kept quiet for months!!
My baby sister is expecting her 3rd child in September. She is looking definitely pregnant now and is passed the is she just over eating? stage, and she has had the scan where they can determine the sex of the baby. She now knows and has told us all. I might try and keep that a surprise until baby is born though, I will tell you all now that she already has a baby of the same sex. Although as I already have an 8 yr old niece and a 2 yr old nephew from this sister it doesn't really give much of a clue then does it. LOL
Before my mum got ill she was making a baby blanket for another baby in the family. Unfortunately that baby only lived on earth for one and a half short weeks. So the blanket was never finished. When clearing out Mum's things we found it. The family member the blanket was intended for has said she would like one of us to have the blanket for any future babies. I have been storing the blanket for when such an opportunity arose. My sister asked me about the blanket a few weeks ago if I still have it. Of course! The next question I anticipated as soon as she asked about it, will I finish it for her. During my peaceful weekend off I started, I needed to work out where in the pattern mum had got to, then continue. No small feat at 700+ stitches per row. I am now working on the border, it will take me the rest of the month I guess at how intricate it is. But it is beautiful, and will be so worth it, take a peak;

It is so intricate and lacy, I'm totally in love with it and can't wait to complete it so I can give it to her.

what a lovely holiday we had!

We have been on our holiday to France and it was fantastic. We stayed at a lovely campsite in Lower Normandy for the first week, and a much busier site in the Ile de France for the second week.

The first site was a lovely Chateau being run by a family with lots of animals and prganic veggies. It was fantastic. We all really really loved the site.

 

This is the Chateau ( or castle) which made my little princess so happy.

The second campsite we went to was very close to Disneyland Paris, so we had a 3 days in there and lots of fun. I got lots of sewing done on both sites while the children played. I sewed together lots of hexagon strips, I now need to attach the strips onto the quilt topper.

We also found some plum trees on the secind site where we managed some foraging for baby plums before we left;

I now need to decide what I am going to do with these quickly as they will go off very soon if I don't. Think I may spend some time this evening thinking about it before I go to bed.

While we were away my sister had her baby, so I now have a new baby nephew, and a real urgency to sort out the baby blanket I made before I went away. I must sort out the wonky edges so that I can give it to her, I have quite  a tight schedule to get that completed by as we are off to stay on Monday so my project for tomorrow is to finish the blanket and do something with the plums as well.