This will be the final preemie set for the summer unless i get a good jump start on my Christmas presents and finish up some UFOs.  I finally found someone to take the items to the hospital for me.  I know they will get there safely because she works in the delivery unit.  I am not sure if all the sizes are right.  Some items are small, some are large, but I was figuring that all babies are different sizes too.

This whole set was done with DK baby yarn by Berroco.  It is super soft and will wash very well.  I think the variegated blue and the variegated pink on the blanket was a Bernat yarn, but i can’t find the colors at the store any more, they are probably still on line though.  I just used a single crochet for the booties, and a single crochet for the hat.  The hat also has a small shell stitch around the edge.  The blanket was done in Tunisian Entrelac Crochet and was very difficult to follow in the pattern book that I got, but once i got it figured out it was pretty easy.  The hard part was that the author of the pattern didn’t have the pattern all on one page or even in a set of pages.  To get the blanket done you had to flip through the book from page 3 to page 7, then to page 11, pack to page 5…..etc.  So good luck for anyone who tries this out.

This project was not only my first experience working with wool, but it was also my first felted project.

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This is the next in the sets that I’ll be sending to the NICU for this month. I plan on doing one more then starting some new sets next month, but I’m not sure yet what patterns I’ll use. The pattern is a diamond lace done on size 7 needles with fingering-weight yarn.

This is an example of the needle cases I’ve started making to store my supplies and sell at my local yarn shop. They’re pretty easy to make, but also time consuming. I will try to post some more pictures of the other cases that I make as I go along. I’ll be happy to make one of these for anyone who wants one. If you’d like one, go ahead and contact me (use the Contact Us link at the top of the page) and we’ll work out the details for pattern, price, and shipping and stuff. Because of the time involved in making these, I’d probably be looking at around $25.00.  I am also making needle cases for 14 in needles, circulars, double points, and crochet hooks.  All for the same price (includes shipping).

I missed the knit group last week, so sorry there wasn’t a Weekly Funny! This week we talked about movies with cannibalism so here is Hannibal the Yarn Cannibal with his yarn roast and fiber salad!