How often do you know exactly what your child will be when she grows up?

Those are a Build-A-Bear monkey’s glasses.

I just hope she still loves me enough to waive all my late fees.

In spite of all the excellent help, I still managed to finish my Wee Tiny Sock in time for Monday’s mail.

So there.

Ruby Sapphire’s Luster in the “Mary Esther” colorway. One of my all time favorite yarns.

She likes her sweater much more than the hat!

Hooray!

I know that none of these are very good pictures of the finished sweater. The baby photographers for catalogs must spend hours taking pictures hoping for one that actually shows the product to it’s best advantage. I don’t have time for that. So you get what you get.

It fits with a decent amount of room to grow.

I can only hope that her cuteness distracts you.

Want to see something that isn’t cute? You know you do.

Michael’s Moustache!

November is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to celebrate, there is a Manly Moustache Movement to raise money for cancer research! November has been renamed Movember (Get it? Because of the MOustaches?), participants started growing manly facial hair on November first and won’t stop until December. To me, this sounds like an excuse to not shave for a month, but Movember raised $700,000 dollars last year. To sponsor Michael’s ’stache donate to Mo.

Michael’s Moustache’s progress has been immortalized on flickr in case you haven’t seen enough. It’s really starting to look like…something. I am really ready for December.

**Yarn Miracle would like to issue a retraction. November is not Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, September is. I don’t know why they picked November for this moustache thing. I guess they went through all the months and “Movember” sounded the best.**

Sponsor the ‘Stache

I’ve been knitting! It’s a shame that the recipient doesn’t like hats.

She can get it off faster than I can grab the camera.

I had to call in the reserves.

And we still couldn’t get her to leave it on her head.

It’s Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino and everything. (Thanks again, Judi!)

Well, at least I know it fits.

Maybe she will like her sweater.

Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel sign-ups are officially closed at 289. Follow Yarn Miracle to stay current on Tag related events including next year’s race.

The last time I looked, sign-ups were at 150! Does that make Dish Rag Tag half-full or half-empty?

Ellie tried a new food yesterday.

Oh my. Apples are that good?

Room to grow! Three Cheers!

Most baby clothing designers seem to think that babies are short and fat. Mine isn’t. As a result, it was kind of tricky to decide what size to make. I finally elected to make the three month size with what basically amounts to the 6 month length. Despite frequent panic attacks about whether or not it would fit by the time the thing was finished, it turns out that I was spot on and she will get a fair amount of wear out of this. Yay!

Sans sleeves.

Cables everywhere! I love cables.

The shoulder buttons are so sweet. And moist.

The moral of this story is: the Cable and Lace All-in-One from Baby Knits (Lois Daykin) is super cute but not in any way a quick baby knit. I would recommend it as a pre-baby knit rather than a post baby knit – unless you have a good grasp of how quickly and in what direction your baby is growing. Or don’t plan to make it for your personal baby.

So what’s next? Since we are in what is know as the Summer around these parts, there won’t be any garment knitting until September (socks don’t count). I’ve got several small projects, ConterPain Squares, that tree skirt and Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel to keep me busy. I have given a lot of thought to ways to improve the Race and make it even more fun, more competitive and more inclusive than last year. Ways that don’t involve me (or any one else) knitting hundreds of starter dish rags. Excited? Stay tuned!

Not enough Ellie? There are more pictures from this modeling session on flickr.

I just finished the second sleeve less than five minutes ago!

I’ve only been working on it since March.

I’ve figured out when I get to knit. Now, when do I vacuum? I can’t do it while she’s asleep because she’s sleeping. I can’t do it while she’s awake because it wastes Ellie time. I think I have to go old school and get out the broom.

Speaking of sleeping, I stopped to check on her on the way to the computer.

I love this baby.