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Stash Bash

By on August 9, 2012 in Knits and Crochet, Sewing and Crafts, Stash Bash

I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind. This year my goal is to use up all the craft supplies I have spent money on that are taking up mental and physical space in my life.  Join me here every Thursday for a Stash Bash. 

Thank you all for your comments and emails yesterday.  I do not know what is going on with the comments section of my blog but I am trying to fix it.

This week, my stash bash project is a baby blanket but…its not for my baby.  Poppa came home a few nights ago and asked me if I could make him a gift for one of his employees who is having a little baby boy.  I looked at her registry and noticed that she liked fluffy, furry blankets.  I immediately remembered that in one of those bags of fabric I packed up to sell and declutter my fabric shelves was some blue minky which I have had for over 5 years since someone asked me to make them something minky.  I have never had a use for it because I prefer natural fibers.  I was so happy to find a use for it and I found some cute and funky alien flannel to go with it.  Now, I need to pull out that organic sherpa fabric to make a blankey or two for my own little one.

I also started some cozies for some mason jars that will hold salves and things like hair brushes and baby things in the nursery.  Once I know exactly what will go inside of each one I will embroider a label to go on the front.

I have been planning a renovation of a small room off of my bedroom that I want to use as a new nursery and had the work planned for today but unfortunately we had a big problem here on our farm and had to use alot of our reserve funds to fix it (more on that horrible day tomorrow).  I am hoping we can still get it done somehow before the baby comes but we will have to see and I keep reminding myself that my baby will not care about the decorated nursery, all the baby will care about are the arms that will hold and comfort.  This keeps me from crying over the whole event.  I am kind of picky about how things are when I bring a new baby into our home and I had what was the perfect room to me all planned out and when things don’t go my way, it is hard for me to get over it.  God has a lot of work to do on me.

So what have you been up to? I love to see what you come up with. I have added the Mr Linky to the bottom of this post for you to link up your Stash Bash projects.

Here’s what to do. There are no rules. 
Just use what you have and try to not buy new supplies, unless you need it to complete a project that you are making from stuff you already have in your stash. 
Take a picture of your project or progress and blog about it or post a picture to flickr.
Then come back here on Thursdays and post a link to your post.
Don’t forget to link back to the Stash Bash so others can find us and get encouraged too.
Fair enough?     

P.S.  Its so nice to hear from other stash bashers so if you visit some of the links don’t forget to leave them a quick little comment.

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A newborn hat for a welcoming party

By on August 8, 2012 in Knits and Crochet

Five weeks to go!  I can hardly believe it though I can certainly feel it.  I have slowed down so much this week.  Every activity is followed by a rest on the couch or rocking chair and I am getting out of bed later and later everyday.  I feel big and heavy and slow but oh so blessed to have this little one with me throughout my day.

It is kind of sneaking up on me and so I have decided to narrow down my ideas and put together a list of what I want to get done before the big day.

Since we are hoping and praying for a home birth, a hat to keep the babies head warm and a pair of mittens to keep that beautiful new face scratch free was first on the list and I can now check it as done.

I am calling it my Welcome to The World hat!  I used this pattern though I changed it up just a bit by making the mittens a little longer in the hand part and shorter in the ribbing and changed the hat by making the ribbing knit 2 purl 2 instead of knit 4 purl 4.  I also learned the turkish cast on which I thought would be so hard.

The rest of my list for right now is:
a quilt for the crib
some sack style pajamas from soft vintage tshirts
newborn sized prefolds
a paper cut art for over the crib
bunting to hang in the window over the crib
a couple more soakers from wool sweaters
finish the Christening gown that I made for JP while I was pregnant with him to which I am making alterations
a gauzey swaddling blanket
a few flannel blankets

I feel like I need everyday that I can get so here is hoping that this baby stays put until they are supposed to be born : )

I am joining my friend Nicole at Frontier Dreams again this week as well as Small Things for the Yarn Along.

Hope to see you tomorrow for the Stash Bash linkup right here with a knitted newborn project and a little something to organize the nursery too!

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