I made these little knitted flowers for a friend who is having a baby soon. It is for a mother blessing gift where we are attaching different handmade things to the edge of a pillow case so that when she is the throws of birth she might open her eyes in fear and panic and instead take in an image of hope, care and love. I have come to find birth to be a labyrinth of sorts, you enter in not knowing what twists and turns but trusting the path to lead you to the center and always back out again. Don’t you think that happens within the gaze of a magnificent flower. Have you ever stood before a Georgia O’Keefe painting of oriental poppies and looked deep within that flower? You can kind of get lost in there. In birth, you get a little lost and seemingly out of control, but you always come back out of it.

My friend, Beth, gave me a fun collection of pins as a “going away present” [she is moving (well, sort of), I am not]. This is my favorite pin.

It’s kind of hard to read but this is what it says:
Real Live Knitter
No, you can’t touch me.

Yeap, that’s me, a real live knitter.

It’s rare. But it does happen.

Here is my most recent completed project:
LEGWARMERS for Miss Audrey Anne.

This is a fun new yarn called “mini mochi” and my friend Mel and I had to make a mad run to Prairie Arts and Fibers to get our hands on it and snag some before it was gone. I did end up cutting (a bit taboo) the yarn to make a perfect rainbow. The dye order was not exactly what I was thinking it was going to be. BTW, Audrey can only wear the legwarmers if she has nothing on except a pair of underwear. Some psychological thing, I guess.

These are a very overdue birthday gift for my dear niece, Ruth Anne and I think they are turning into “a half birthday” present. Very fun yarn called Imagination Sock Yarn by Knit Picks. The socks were super fun to make; the hat, not so much.

These are some worsted cotton dishcloths I made for my sister right after I had Scarlet. Don’t ask me how I had time to knit, but I think I busted one of these out in a day. Dishcloths used to be a form of psychotherapy for me; now I think legwarmers might be. Place your orders, peeps.

Lastly, I have enjoyed making these lovely flannel receiving blankets for friends who have been having babies in the mad Spring rush to birth a baby. These cozy blankets are 36in x 36in which I find to be a perfect size for 0-6 month old who need a tight swaddle. Compare to those cheap receiving blankets you can get at Target, these are top notch and worth all the pinning and ironing.

In case you are wondering where I am…

…I am probably upstairs in my roost knitting.