Our new baby grandson is here!!! We’re so excited and thrilled with him, he’s such a beautiful baby boy, speaking in a totally non-biased way, of course!! note: so clearly above photo is NOT of new baby grandson… sorry! But thanks to R2D2 for modelling the new beanie!!
I just had to make a few new things to welcome our family’s new bubby…
Items one and two are my favourites, obviously! I knitted a little yoda beanie, based upon this terrific free pattern by Shinah Chang on her FuzzyCloudDesigns blog. I used the pattern for the ears, but adapted my own for the beanie itself, my yarn was completely different and with a completely different gauge from the recommended. I think from memory I cast on 60 stitches? and for the crown I did the cast off in a 6 segment fashion. In other words, 1 per 10 stitches in the first cast-off row.
The yarn is from the big bag I picked up off a neighbour’s verge recently. I cannot believe someone was throwing away so much great yarn!
I made the matching onesie using my current favourite onesie pattern, Burda 9434. I made it using a scrap of cream coloured cotton jersey, and white plastic snaps, that I bought along with their matching tool from Spotlight. I don’t know why I haven’t used these before! because they really are far superior to the metal versions… I’m only sad that the white plastic did not take up the dye, like AT ALL. Oh yes, I obviously dyed the cream onesie to make it motley brown, like Yoda’s robes. I used dark brown thread so it would match the final colour.
I think it turned out super cute!
The other onesie is pretty plain, and in retrospect rather boring, it’s saving grace is that it’s for size 3 months, and I’m pretty sure Tim and Kelly have basically hardly anything in this size yet. So it will come in handy 
In complete random and unrelated-to-sewing, life stuff; Dolly Parton- yes, THE Dolly Parton! – set the following challenge meme and I had great fun fulfilling it on behalf of Mischka. Behold, the cuteness!!
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