He's here...

Our little Micah was born yesterday at 3:35 in the afternoon after a quick and lovely labor and weighed in at a whopping 11 lbs.  

I'm no longer concerned about him fitting into his going home from the hospital outfit I made him.

He is delightful and has the sweetest little cry you've ever heard.  I want to giggle every time I hear it.  His brothers are ecstatic that he's finally here as are his mama and daddy and everyone else.

Welcome to our family little Micah!

Something for bringing home baby...

Back when we were in Idaho and the crochet bug bit me, I made these little booties and hat and a small sized zig zag blanket to match.  With the way my creativity and urge to make things dies while I'm pregnant, I've never really made my boys baby clothes or special little outfits or anything.  But as I made these booties and little hat I started to get this really strong desire to make this baby his own little outfit to be brought home from the hospital in.  I knew it had to be something simple because my pattern following ability as well as my garment construction skills were limited and rudimentary at best.  I found this pattern in Amy Buttler's Little Stitches for Little Ones and set to finding the right fabric for it. I finally picked these Heather Ross prints out yesterday and last night put it together.

I will say I'm not sure I did it totally along with the pattern.  I seem to have an extra tie that I'm sure was written there but I can't figure out what it ties to but that's okay.  Its cute.  The weight of the fabric is a little heavier than I would have wished but I think once I toss it in the wash it will soften up.  The real question is will it be small enough to tote a newborn home in.  Since my other boys were 9 lbs 3 oz and 9 lbs 15oz when they were born (basically I give birth to two month olds) I'm hoping it won't be too big.  The pattern was for 0-3 months but it seems sort of big to me.  I packed a back up outfit in my hospital bag just in case but I'm hoping this fits him.  I have loved this guitar fabric everytime I've seen it at the fabric store and was excited to finally use it.  I reminds me of my dad:)

Here's to hoping I get to put this outfit to use sooner rather than later!  Due date is still a week away but I am definitely ready to trade in this belly for a baby.

Hexie Quilt: Completed!

She's finished!

Woo hoo!  It took me all of a year of slowly but surely hand-piecing those little hexies together but as of Sunday afternoon, this little lady was finished.

It was a little tricky finishing it up with all the tiny hexies and cutting some of them down as I added the sashing but it worked out.  I stippled it for the quilting since I wanted it pretty tightly done to add strength to all the hand sewing that was holding the top together. 

I love the fabric I found for the back and it matched the solid I used on the sashing perfectly.  I was so happy to have some leftover so I'll still have some of that pretty green to add to some other future scrap quilt.

It feels so nice to have it done!  Although I sort of miss sitting on the couch at night catching up on my Hulu queue next to the hubster sewing my hexies.  

I guess I'll just have to start another one..... (ha... just kidding...this baby took so long....probably won't be turning to another hexie pattern for awhile...)

And just in case you're wondering......there are 1,326 little hexies on this baby.  

Easter Eggs, yarn style

Lately I've been sort of obsessed with yarnish typed projects.  When we were in Idaho a month ago I had my crochet expert sister-in-law give me a lesson on reading crochet patterns and since then I've been a crochet fiend!  Baby booties, baby hats and little baby blankets mostly but when Easter rolled around I ran across these little darlings on pinterest.  They come from Mamachee over at Easy Makes Me Happy and let me tell you, she has some DARLING patterns. I linked over to her blog where she posted the free pattern for these eggs and had to make a few.

I made a few adjustments to the pattern  that worked easier for me and left me with a little loop on the top to hang from our little Easter spring twigs.

I used a 100% cotton yarn which I really liked and after I did one or two, I got the hang of it and really liked how they turned out.  I had so much yarn left I made a little table runner (that you can see in the first picture).  Crocheting has been so nice lately.  I think because its something I can do snuggled up on the couch and with four weeks to go in this pregnancy, snuggled up on the couch is about the only place I want to be.

Stay tuned for more of my crochet obsession coming your way this week:)

Hexie Progress

Last night I put my boys to bed and settled in downstairs with my hexie quilt and an episode (or three) of Once Upon a Time.  It seems quite appropriate to hand stitch along to a TV show about fairy tales, don't you think?  Anyway I'm getting really close to finishing this little pretty.  Or at least finishing up the top.  The big debate is do I add one more row or just head on into adding on the sashing to it.  I bought a green Kona solid to hexie around the whole thing for sashing.  I have six leftover little orphaned hexiess though so the temptation to use them up with one more row is big.  I don't care for leftovers.

I'm getting really excited at the prospect that this baby might be done in time for my new baby in May....

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What I've been up to..

Something about being pregnant really seems to kills my creative energy which is why I've been so MIA on this bloggeroo.  Or maybe I'm just exhausted from pregnancy and chasing two boys.  That's probably it. I know I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again.  Either way, I feel like I've been a tad neglectful here. 

But what I have had is this crazy craving to knit.  It really is a craving.  The same way I almost always want to eat a plate full of fettuccine alfredo these days.  Its my creative alfredo.  Oh how I can barely contain my desire to make cute little baby things with yarn.  Except I actually don't know how.  I learned to crochet a little a few years back when I worked at a residential treatment center but I didn't really know what I was doing.  So a few weeks ago I hired a babysitter for an hour or two and took a little beginning knitting class.  And then last week I got online and with the help of youtube started to learn how to read a crochet pattern.  Woo hoo!  And now I'm a bootie away from finishing a little newborn mittens/bootie set.  How about that?!

Its nice because its something I can do just sitting snuggled up on the couch with an episode (or two) of Downton Abbey (are you watching this yet???  I looooooovvvveeeee it way too much).  Now I just have to go out and buy some more boyish yarn since the new babe is a boy and the only yarn I have in my stash is pink and purple.

My other project has been this custom baby blanket that is coming along really nicely.  Its for a sweet new baby girl due in a month and I really love how its turning out.  Its just waiting for some finishing touches and should be ready to ship off by the end of the week....I'll do more showing off of that next week once its done....