Whoo hoo! I did it! I did it! (imagine me singing that)

I finished knitting a blanket for Nathan!! It isn’t blocked. But I don’t think I’m going to bother doing that. We’re too busy using it.

And doesn’t Nathan look sweet under there. No redness on his face? Well his face cleared up. But these are old pictures. One morning we woke up and it was all red and angry looking again.

And like my new banner? No one will get it except for Alan. I’ll explain some other time, too busy coughing.

Project Notes
Pattern: Personalized Baby Blanket from Simple Knits for Cherished Babies
Yarn: Lion Brand Cotton-Ease
Needle size: US 7 / 4.5 mm

Here’s our monthly family picture:

Just kidding. I’m just playing major catch up here. I started these dolls back in December. I finished the Alan doll on Christmas Eve. It took me a little longer to finish the rest of the family. But I know I finished Isabelle and Nathan when we went to the zoo in January because I took this picture there.

The dolls might look a little familiar. I used them for the entire month of January as my banner:

And it would have made sense if I had shown the dolls then. But…I couldn’t find them. Isabelle kept playing with them and losing them. At first the Isabelle and Nathan doll went missing. And when they turned up, daddy doll went missing or someone was always missing. Well, I’m glad I found them all at the same time so I could get a picture.

The dolls were a collaboration between me and Isabelle. It was originally from this banner:

I created it in Illustrator. In Illustrator you can save only the artwork on your art board. So, I don’t usually draw what’s not going to be in the final image. In the original file we had no legs. Why draw legs when you aren’t going to see them? But every time Isabelle walked by and saw me working on it, it drove her crazy. She kept asking where her feet were. So, I drew some for her. But then when she had feet, she wanted the rest of us to have feet. So, of course I had to draw some for her.

And that’s what I was going to use for our family dolls. I started changing us a little bit around but I liked Alan in this, I call it “sexy pose”. Hee hee hee!

But Isabelle didn’t like it. She wanted daddy standing like normal and she wanted us in different colored clothes and she wanted to be in a dress and why didn’t we have shoes on? I love what she came up with.

And here we are with our dolls.

And finally our real monthly family picture.

I don’t usually celebrate groundhog day in any way, shape, or form. But this year is going to be different. Did you see the groundhog pouch I mentioned in my “I heart” section.

Well, the creative bug hit me when I saw it. I wanted to make all sorts of groundhog related items. Groundhog toys and hats and EVERYTHING!! But it was late and Nathan was fussing. So, I thought I’d just do something quick. I had an idea percolating in my head so I told Isabelle I was going to make her some groundhogs. And since we don’t ever remark on the day, she had no idea what I was talking about. She said, “what’s that going to taste like?” Bwa ha ha!

Well this is what popped into my head:

A groundhog garland. Sorry for the quality of the picture. Like I said, it was late and Nathan was fussing. I was rushing. If I had more time and didn’t have a fussing Nathan maybe I would have spaced the little groundhogs further apart. And I did cut them out rather messily. And do these even look like groundhogs? They seem more hamster like to me. Oh well, you get the idea. It was just easy and fast. Cut them out and run them through the sewing machine.

It’s totally silly and why would you need one or want one? But if you want, you can make a groundhog garland of your own. Or a hamster garland. Whatever they are.

You decide.

Maybe tomorrow we’ll make a big iron on groundhog toy. You can too!