SomerKnits

And by that I mean YUM!   Who knew? My friends and I, who all have babies 6 months and younger, decided during our weekly play date to make lactation cookies.  I scoured the internet and found these two recipes  that looked the best.  I had virtually everything in my cabinets, except brewers yeast, which turned out to be harder to find than I thought it would be, at least in scoop-able baking form.  We ended up having to hit up Akins for that, although Whole Foods likely would have had it too.  Reasors not so much.  They had a nice blank spot on their shelves where it should have been, but the employee I talked to couldn't tell me the last time they had actually gotten any in.  Hmm.  Anyway, back to the cookies.  If you click that link and read through all the helpful information and then the cookie recipes, we decided to start with the first one.  We used peanut butter, not almond butter, but I bet almond butter would be awesome....

Well, despite the fact that my right wrist has decided to not yet get over the whole carpal tunnel thing, I have knit (and completed) something!  I have a few things I have been working on, but I hadn't put all that much in to them recently.  But I finally sat down and knit on the same project from start to finish. Ok, so its a small cotton baby hat.  And I didn't swatch, so its not as small as I had intended and I have started another one on smaller needles (although between the smaller needles and the less stitches I may have over compensated...)  So take heart, my knitting mojo has not gone away!  (Its just slowed down a bit what with all the distractions) I'm excited for many things coming up.  Of course there is baby knitting, for both little Miss Evelyn and also for friends' babies.  Then there is the Indie Emporium Shop.  Have I mentioned that exciting news?  I think its going to be great!  And I was thinking maybe at some poi...

Here is the baby set I've been working on this summer. I think it all turned out really nice. The Bernat Satin was lovely to work with, so soft and smooth. It feels really good in your hands as you knit. This whole set is for Angie, who is due at the end of september. Her shower is today and I really hope she likes everything. Obviously I don't have baby bottles laying around my apartment, so I had to ask this nice water bottle to model the bottle cozy for me. I think its really cute, but I'll have to ask the couple of women I've given bottle cozies to if they ever use them. They knit up really fast, so its not a super huge deal. The blanket didn't quite fit on my dining room table, so I kind of blocked it in sections. Mainly I just misted it and straightened edges and any uneven stitches. It ended up so pretty! Here's the whole set before I made the bottle cozy. It gives a decent view of the booties and hat up against the blanket. You can see the wh...