Blessing Day - and a truly epic Blessing Gown

On Sunday March 18, 2018 Jared blessed our sweet Edythe Rose at our church.  A baby blessing is a ritual in which men who hold the Priesthood gather in a circle around a baby, and in Edythe's case, her father, pronounces her name for the records of the church, and provides a blessing for her spiritual and physical welfare. I love to see my babies, surrounded and held up by righteous men, while being blessed with a wonderful life. Edythe was surrounded by her dad, most of her uncles, her grandfathers, and a close friend.  I hope that as she grows up she knows that these strong, worthy men of God will continue to support her and that she can go any one of them if she ever needs them. 

No pictures are taken of the actual blessing, but we definitely took a few afterward.  You see, the dress she was wearing is truly epic.  It embodies 10 years of dreaming of a girl.  I started crocheting this beauty when I was pregnant with Eli, and didn't finish it until after I had Atticus.  I worked on it every time I got pregnant, and stopped once I had another boy.  While I would have been perfectly happy to have to knit up another something for another boy, it was sure nice to see it on a little girl of my own. 

 All of my lovelies.  Aren't they adorable!?

My biggest and my littlest.  Evy is lucky to have a wonderful older sister, who has shown her just how to be a good big sister, herself. She is absolutely thrilled to have a baby sister, also. 

And the boy's, who it's obvious completely adore this little nugget.

My mom and I.  I'm wearing a necklace that my Grandma Jackson (Edythe) gave me at my university graduation. It's an Egyptian cartouche with "Edythe" on it in hieroglyphs. She would love to know that she has a namesake.

And 4 generations of Jared's family, his mom and Granny. Can I say how stinking lucky I am to have married into such a family!

Okay, and just a few more of Edythe and the dress, because seriously, 10 years. 

Orleans - A Knitting Pattern

While I don't have little girls to knit for, I can't help myself sometimes.  This little dress was stuck in my head, and too perfect not to knit, even if I don't have a 2 year old girl to put in it!

Orleans is now available on Ravelry for $5.50. Go ahead and check it out, along with all the projects made by other fabulous knitters:   and then go ahead and   !!!

Orleans is a simple dress with puffed sleeves and a gathered skirt.  It is knit in two pieces to add stability and create a seam. The bodice is knit first, from the top down. The live sts are then put on hold while the skirt is worked from the bottom up. The pieces are joined using a 3 needle bind off, making it entirely seamless!

There are four options outlined for the skirt: Full Skirt or Narrower Skirt in either dress or tunic length. The sample is the full skirt dress in size 2 years.

The pattern is written for girls aged 3 months to 10 years and knit with fingering/sock weight yarn. 

Little Old Man Collection - Knitting Patterns

As evidenced by my last post, I have a thing for old man sweaters.  I could dress my boys in them every day of the week if they'd let me.  I've designed enough now to dress each of my boys in a different Old Man Sweater.  I can also bundle all the patterns up into a nice little bundle and offer them to knitters at a fantastic price!  Here they are: Elwood, Grow Old With Me, Calaway and The Afternoon Knows. 

And, because I'm excited about all of them, and because I love offering a good deal to knitters everywhere, if you purchase The Little Old Man Collection before March 15, 2015, you can get it for only $10!  You can head over to Ravelry and purchase it there, or you can buy it right here, right now:

 

Elwood - A Knitting Pattern

I keep thinking I should be knitting things for me: after all, my kids don't really appreciate the time and effort involved in designing and knitting a sweater (let's be honest, they couldn't care less if I put them in a dirty sweatshirt every day of the week.) But, when I pick up my needles all I can think of is darling designs for them. And so, the stitches turn into rows, and the rows turn into whole little sweaters, and this boy is dressed in hand knit goodness yet again!

Here's Elwood (the sweater, not the boy.) It's a very simple raglan sweater, but with bold stripes and a textured collar, it provides all the makings of the perfect old man sweater!  My Grandpa Elwood would have rocked this sweater!

And, the most fantastic thing about this design is that I sized it from 6 months to adult XL, so you can knit it for everyone! As usual, I'm blown away by other knitters projects.  Check out all the amazing sweaters being knit:


This pattern can be yours for only $5.50.  So, go ahead and buy it. Buy it now!

Calaway - A Knitting Pattern

When I'm out and about and see cute sweaters, sometimes I become a little bit of a creeper. Seriously. Like this one time when I was at Calaway park and I saw this little girl in the most darling red sweater, and I followed her around for long enough to determine the stitch pattern...  Ya, like that.

Anyway, turns out I put my creeping to good use.  

Introducing my newest knitting pattern: Calaway!

Um, first of all, is my little nephew not the cutest thing EVER?!? Seriously.

 But check out the sweater!  Darling, eh?   The cable pattern on the front is really easy. It's knit top down and is totally seamless.  And, I've sized it from 6 months to 12 years, so whomever is on your knit worthy list, you can make this one for them!It doesn't get much better than that! And, the whole pattern can be yours for just $5.50!  That's right folks. So go ahead, plunge in, 

Indie Designer Gift-A-Long 2014

What is a Gift-A-Long, you ask?  Well, it's an opportunity to join with other fiber folks to support independent designers and hopefully get a few Christmas knits done.

And, I'm part of the madness!!!

Until Friday at midnight all of my designs are 25% off!  So are the designs of 293 other designers.  Just use the code "giftalong2014" when you purchase the patterns through Ravelry.  Then, head over to the GAL group to participate in discussion, sharing, and a crazy amount of prizes. Seriously, do it. You won't be disappointed!

Here are a few of my favourite designs. Now I just have to decide which ones I am going to take advantage of the sale to put in my own pattern library!

Symbiotic Cowl

by Hanna Maciejewska

Polar Vortex Thrummed Mittens

by Cynthia Spencer

Goldilocks

by Justyna Lorkowska

Vaffel Votter

by Anniken Allis

Limesicle

by Debbie Sullivan

Libellula

by Cristina Ghirlanda

Summer Festival

by Georgie Hallam

Thyone

by Tori Gurbisz