Feeling Make-y

{Today I am linking up with Ginny and her lovely Knit Along.  Also, today I'm being featured over at Mothering Spirit, talking about what nourishes my Mothering Spirit.  A little hint - it has to do with making!  If you have a chance, please also check out my post on Pure and Simple about our life and the role handmade plays in it.  Lots of posts today!  Enjoy!}

"Mom, you've been really make-y lately."

"Oh?  What do you mean?"

"Well, you've been knitting like crazy, sewing, and baking a whole lot."

I suppose it's true.  I have been rather make-y here lately.  Perhaps it's the sub-zero temperatures that keep us tucked inside that are giving me that need to do, to make.  Or maybe it's that manic 3rd trimester pregnancy energy.  Whatever the cause, I have been making things quite a bit more than normal.

I've got a lot of yarn laying around here, and lately I'm doing my best to use it up.  Baby things work well, as they require smaller amounts of the stuff and it is rare that I have more than one skein of spare yarn laying idly in my stash basket.

Thus, for this week, a very gender neutral Owlie baby sleep sack.  I knit it up once, made it to slightly past the cabling, and pulled the whole thing out.  The pooling of the colors was just not doing it for me.  Thankfully this is one yarn that I actually do have 2 skeins, and I was able to alternate them a row at a time to make the pooling a bit less noticeable.

I also finished this little vest out of the yarn I dyed last week.  At first I wasn't sure if I liked the shade of purple that I ended up with, but as it knit up I absolutely fell in love.  The pattern is the Milo vest, with no cabling.  I'm hoping the 9 month size will fit my little one in the Fall.

Using up stash yarn makes me feel just a bit less guilty about the yarn on the way (ahem) for a new project - Fiona's birthday sweater.  Well, maybe not totally less guilty, but I'll take it.

On Monday, the boys and I sewed up a few pair of trousers for my sister's baby - yes, another darling cousin on the way, due just 5 days before my "guess date."  In 3 month size, hopefully these will see him through the Connecticut springtime.  I've got plans to make a few more to match the various vests, booties and hats that are piling up at random around here for our very own little one.

Yes, I've been feeling make-y lately...

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