sheep in the city

A Bucket and a Baby!!

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled knitting discussion for an important baby announcement...Alice Lauren was born yesterday at 4:40 pm. I'm an aunt!!! My sister and I are about 20 months apart, and have always been close. We have houses just down the street from each other. Do you see the pattern? She's my best friend! I was able to be in the room while she was having contractions, but left when the delivery was at hand so that she and her husband could share that moment together. (If I'm honest with myself, I don't think that I would have wanted to be in the room, that is some scary stuff.) I was in awe of the whole process though. My sister was so strong and Drew, her husband, was so patient and gentle with her...wow, all I can say is wow! Alice is is the most precious baby, so teeny tiny! I'll leave you with a few pictures...because I don't need to tell you how cute she is when you can see for yourself!!

Let's say it all together now...aaawwwwwww!!!

If you are really into this and just have to see more pictures of my family and baby Alice you can visit my sister and drew's homepage!

Now back to your regularly scheduled knitting discussion...For months I have been reading about them...and now every time I turn around someone else is makin' one! A bucket hat that is! (Babies too though, it seems like everyone I know is pregnant) I decided just before the cut off to try my hand at knitting a Bucket O' Chic care of the very talented Bonnie Marie and the knitalong hosted by that crazy little rabbit we all know and love Fluffa. So I dug around in my stash and came up with one skein of Recycled silk from Mango Moon and off I went. The silk yarn is really bizzare to knit with...bizarre good, not bizarre bad. It's soft but as you knit it, (this is hard to explain) it gets thicker. I can't really describe it, but it makes a very sturdy fabric. I was pleased with the end result. That's the important thing, right, that I'm happy with it since I have to wear it?! The one draw back was that the brim seems to not stick out as much as some of the other hats I've seen, I'm going to try to block it and see if that helps. Overall this was a quick and easy knit, I'm thinking?.....christmas buckets anyone?

Posted by Stacey at August 17, 2004 02:32 PM