Knit You Some: July 2008

So...my mom came in town this weekend and after 4 hours of going through my grandmother's house brought me all kinds of goodies!! You have to know that my grandmother, who has 5 children...all with children, doesn't like to throw away anything!! They have lived in the same house for over 50 years so you can imagine all the fun stuff there is to find there. She still has all clothes from her lifetime (prom dress), her mothers clothes, old hats, shoes, my mom and all of her sibling's clothes and of course of all her grandchildren's clothes. Needless to say she likes to be the keeper of things. My mom went on a hunt through the rooms full of boxes in search of any salvageable baby clothes she could find...and boy did she ever find some good stuff.

These are a couple of my favorites that I've already hung in the closet:

My great grandmother was a very accomplished "Do it yourselfer" and she made most of my grandmother and mother's clothes all the way until they were adults! She was a knitter too! And while going through the baby clothes we found some of her FOs that I can't wait to use on our baby. They're in great shape too!

these are the tiniest little sweaters...

i love this baby blanket...

AND...even more fun stuff that mom found in the Mimi museum were all of my great grandmother's old patterns!! I had the best time going through these and making my own box with the ones that were still in style that I would like to try. Most of them were for adult clothes and luckily in my size, but there were some baby day gown patterns and toddler clothes too!!

thats' my keeper box on the left..woohoo!!

just a couple of my favorites...

And we're back! Again sorry for the delay but I promise I have a good excuse this time. Tweedy and I are expecting a baby due Feb. 5th!! We weren't quite planning on babies this soon but it's such a welcome surprise and we're pretty excited. The bad news...I've been super sick from all this pregnant stuff. I haven't been able to do anything fun without getting sick...can't cook, take Jayber on walks and haven't felt like knitting or sewing in a while. All I want to do is take naps, drink milk shakes and go to work (don't always want to do the last one..but you gotta do what you gotta do). Smells are killing me...yesterday I got sick in the shower after smelling my shampoo while I was washing my hair. It doesn't help that I can smell every little thing now like a superhero or something with my super powerful smellers.

But the good news is that I'm almost finished with my first trimester now...so 12 weeks along and it's getting better slowly but surely. Supposedly it should end early into week 14. So how did this happen you say?!? Well....Tweedy's family took us on a trip to France and Italy for 2 weeks at the end of May and it was such a great vacation and just so damn romantic over there that....as Tweedy says "We went over there with two of us and came back with three of us." (That's what he said to his parents to tell them our news...so embarrassing!)

We all know where this picture was taken...

Notre Dame was one of my favorite things...

Lake Como, Italy - Where George Clooney and Brad Pitt have villas. I looked for them everywhere but unfortunately they came the week after we left. Boo.

So now that I'm finally feeling a little better I'm gearing up my crafting into overdrive. Especially the baby stuff as you can imagine. I've signed up for a smocking class and am into week two with it. It's pretty fun! Kind of like knitting in that it's county, portable and incredibly addicting. My first project is going to be a baby blue day gown with a geometric smocking pattern at the top. I'll put up some pictures one I finish it. On the knitting front...I've been working on a top secret project for one of my friends who's also having a baby but I can't talk about it until I give it to her since she reads Knit You Some...so more on that later.

We've also been super busy after moving into our new house doing yard stuff. Tweedy has made an amazing garden and now we have eggplants, tons of cantelope, tomatoes, basil and other fun veggies all over the place.

This is from a couple of weeks ago so now the plants are overflowing the raised beds..but Tweedy made these raised beds all by himself!

Also...my dad came to visit a couple of weeks ago with plans to put a storage house in our backyard for Tweedy's yard tools and stuff. So I'm thinking a tiny little 6 ft. tall house big enough for maybe a lawn mower and some shovels, but oh no...3 days later...it turns out this "storage shed" has a front porch and is looking more like a guest house with a greenhouse attached to the side of it. Errr I was tricked!! But Tweedy's pretty pumped about it and our backyard is big so oh well. His office may have to be moved out there now that there's a baby on the way.

What a proud helper...haha!