Whew! Finally sitting down after a chaotic start to March! Babygirl was born 10 years and 1 day after Shorty so we have our own little version of March Madness going on around here the first part of March. The fortunate thing about the craziness of celebrating two birthdays is that it has disallowed me the agony of coping with the fact that Shorty is now officially a teenager! Lucky for me, she’s a great kid so thus far I am not concerned about “teenage drama”, but boy, it is amazing how quickly the time has passed!
ERL used his Cake Boss skills and made this fabulous cake for the fairy obsessed Babygirl!
I have had plenty of crafty failures and successes for birthday gifts. First, I attempted an ambitious (for me, anyway) project of making Babygirl a sweater from this pattern here, which I have had in my Lion Brand favorites for forever but have been too chicken to attempt. This is the first time I’ve made any real apparel, and it was much easier that I thought it would be! The flowers are of my own design after several failed attempts at motifs found around the Web.
Now if I could just get her to wear it….
Shorty decided she wanted an afghan, and since A. I have never made an afghan before and B. she knows how bad I am at finishing big projects, she was very sweet and understanding in accepting that there was no way it would be completed in time for her actual birthday. So I spent a fair amount of time on Ravelry trying to find the perfect pattern, and she and I decided on this one, which is just lovely and 12” squares seemed much more manageable to me than 6”. However, it appears that this pattern may be more above my skill level than I’m willing to manage. Or it requires much more attention to detail than I can manage. Either way, with three kids running around it’s pretty hard to get quiet time before I’m deliriously tired. I’ve completed three squares. The first I knew right away was wrong, and is not pictured because Babygirl has snatched it up for her baby doll’s blankie.
One of these things is definitely not like the other.
I say “uncle!” and Shorty has confessed that she prefers the look of a giant granny square blanket (relief!) I’ve decided to use the rest of the yarn I had picked for this to make myself a giant granny square blankie for the couch, and will let her pick her yarn for her very self.
I’ve got a couple of other WIP’s going on right now, and will (hopefully) be sharing soon!
That cake is amazing and the cardy is so sweet, and I totally hear you on the big projects, I love the look of Afghans but I only ever end up making huge granny square blankets, they're too easy and no piecing together heaven!
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