Over the past six months or so, there have been a flurry of births in my circle of friends and in my midwestern family. As you know, I’ve knitted many, many tiny hats lately, which I find to be an easy, quick, and a super useful gift. My favorite is the Magic Coffee Baby Hat, partly because it was designed by a friend for/because of my boy (and another in our circle of knitters), and partly because it’s a great pattern and actually fits babies really well. And it’s free! And over a thousand knitters have made it, so you know it must be good! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/magic-coffee-baby-hat
I’m actually not sure how many Magic Coffee Baby Hats I’ve knit myself. I sometimes group them together into one Ravelry project if I’m knitting a bunch at once. I’ve probably made more than a dozen of them.
Anyway….Here are four of the recently-born baby girls (all girls!!!!) in their hats, and one in a sweater.
Left to right and top to bottom, they’re 1) Ava, one of my college BFF’s daughter, 2) Caroline, my great-niece (nothing has made me feel old until writing or saying “great-niece.”), 3) Amayah, my cousin’s granddaughter, 4) Penny, my knitting friend’s daughter (with husband for goofy addition), and Caroline again– I need to knit her a new sweater ASAP, eh? She’s a beautiful, chunky baby!
It’s awfully nice that, although I can’t cuddle all these babies in person, I can send them some wooly love. And I can’t express how happy I am that the parents have been sending me photos of the handknits in action. You know what that means, don’t you? They’ll get MORE handknits!
All are adorable! Well, except for the dad up there. LOL. I am jealous though, I NEVER get photos of the babes in their hand knits!!!
I was VERY lucky this round to get photos! So many of my handknit gifts have disappeared into the midwest, mainly, without photographic evidence of the recipient every enjoying them! Unless I was there to snap a pic before the item was put into a drawer until which time I was in another time zone…. I think Facebook helps in this way- the “likes” the handknit photos get might inspire the next mom to send me a modeled photo as well. win!