So, to set the record straight:
There has been some sewing happening.
I finished off the box bag Jess ordered, and finally finished off this lavender and soft green one for my shop. Available here!
There has been some knitting happening.
Yeah, just another Bunny I'm afraid. For another one of my reproductive friends- this time for a little boy called Aurelio (a beautiful name I think- his dad is Italian and they spend some time there each year), who was born the day after our wedding.
The bunny was started some time ago but I stalled due to the emerging realisation that I was going to run out of yarn. I know convention is to knit faster when faced with such realisations- but I go the opposite way. Frustration and annoyance set in, and I adopt a "go-slow" work practice. In the end, it was a S'n'B meet this week that prompted me to pull it back out of the bag, to rummage for all the yarn scraps I could find, and get on with the job. I'm sure I missed a row out of the head somehow (the stitch count was out, and he looks slightly stunted), and I had to knit both ears simultaneously, and a few rows short, to make the most of the knotted yarn scraps. I had just enough ends left to sew him together. He will be remaining tail-less.
And there has been some reproduction happening.
With so many friends around us having babies, Scott and I finally gave in to peer group pressure and will be producing an offspring of our own late June, 2007. Actually, it wasn't really peer group pressure- it was something we've been planning and discussing for quite a while now, but we do feel like we're contributing to the baby boom that Melbourne and crafty-blog-land are experiencing at the moment. It's very exciting that things have gone according to plan, and all is well, so long as I'm in bed by 9.30pm* and remember to eat at frequent intervals. Now that we're over the 12 week danger zone, and all tests have shown good results, Christmas (and birthday) celebrations have been (very soberly for me, I might point out) mingling with celebrating our pregnancy with friends and family.
Of course I've started scheming about knitwear for a winter baby... I'm thinking hats, kimono wrap tops, the odd sweater, some socks (I'm told that this sock pattern will actually stay on!) and maybe even mittens (it gets cold in Melbourne!). We're not going to find out the sex beforehand, so there's a need for a unisex approach. I've been gazing at the yarn-cakes I wound last night for a good few hours now, trying to figure out what would work with which pattern, whether I have enough yarn, and whether it's something I really would dress my child in. After all, I haven't had one before- and it's hard to imagine that 6 months from now, I will...
*This bed time, coupled with train journey nausea, have cut severely into my craft time over the last 3 months... hopefully, now that I'm into the second trimester, my craft/life balance will improve, and I will actually manage to knit some of the things I'd like to knit this year!
