Baby shower &amp; handmade gift

April 27, 2009 in knitting by dhb | 2 comments

Yesterday I attended a baby shower for my good friend Elizabeth. Rob did an excellent job hosting the shin-dig and the food was delicious! It was great to see some old faces and catch-up. After we stuffed our faces it was onto the shower game. At first, I was unsure what that meant as I know of goofy games like this. Gross! Luckily, it was fun trivia of guess the T.V. mom’s and celebrity babies. Although my team didn’t win I learned that I clearly need to read US Weekly more often.

The happy Mom-to-be

For my shower gift I decided to go with something handmade. My first ever knitted sweater. It started out well until I realized I was working on the wrong size circular needles, opps! So, I ripped it all out and started over. Surprisingly this all works up as one piece so no sewing needed. To create the arms it required working in rounds and that’s when I headed to my LYS (local yarn store) for advice. With Debbie’s help I had it all figured out. It’s a lot easier that it looks. All in all, it turned out really well and most importantly the mom-to-be was delighted!