To give you a bit of background ... Poppa had cataract surgery this year. His first eye was done in May and the second eye in October... so he doesn't wear glasses - except for when he is reading fine print! I am so envious!!
So, back to the knitting. While we were sitting in the hospital reception area, waiting for Uncle David to come and give us a ride home (Poppa wasn't allowed to drive, and I haven't driven for a few years now, due to vision issues) directly across from the Tuck Shop, it occured to me that a long, long time ago I did some knitting for the NICU. I don't remember why I quit doing that - probably just a time issue. Anyway, I left Poppa sitting there and scooted over to see if they wanted someone to do some knitting for them. I left my name and number. A couple of months later, when I had forgotten all about it - I got a phone call. They would be happy to take whatever I could donate! Hurray! Now I had a really good, legimitate cause to buy yarn and sit knitting! So, I got started. Following are the first few outfits I made.
This is a classic popcorn stitch outfit from a book for knitting with Beehive Astra. I used Bernat Softee Baby yarn which I had left over from a previous project.
I just couldn't get good lighting for this outfit. I've had this yarn around for a while and don't even remember what I used it for or what kind of yarn it is! I know it was "3" on the weight scale used for categorizing yarn - so about the same as Bernat Softee Baby. I kept the pattern simple due to the speckled yarn.
Since the first two outfits looked a little girlie, I thought I should knit something for little boys too! So I chose this hoodie (youngsters seem to like hoodies these days) and added a little hat just in case - and because I had the yarn.
Then I made this little outfit in brown and beige - totally winged this one because I needed to make it with stripes due to the amount of these colors in my stash.
It was a great way to use up some of my stash - which created a good excuse to purchase some more yarn! Then I had to switch to another project - more on that later!
So, back to the knitting. While we were sitting in the hospital reception area, waiting for Uncle David to come and give us a ride home (Poppa wasn't allowed to drive, and I haven't driven for a few years now, due to vision issues) directly across from the Tuck Shop, it occured to me that a long, long time ago I did some knitting for the NICU. I don't remember why I quit doing that - probably just a time issue. Anyway, I left Poppa sitting there and scooted over to see if they wanted someone to do some knitting for them. I left my name and number. A couple of months later, when I had forgotten all about it - I got a phone call. They would be happy to take whatever I could donate! Hurray! Now I had a really good, legimitate cause to buy yarn and sit knitting! So, I got started. Following are the first few outfits I made.
It was a great way to use up some of my stash - which created a good excuse to purchase some more yarn! Then I had to switch to another project - more on that later!
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