New travel crib

With our weekend in San Francisco coming up at the end of the week, I finally bit the bullet and bought the baby bjorn travel crib that I’ve been waffling on since Henry was a newborn. Upsides: super compact bag that fits in a suitcase and only 11 lbs. Downside: expensive. But we didn’t want to take the pack n play with us (plus Henry doesn’t fit, really), and it seemed like with the new baby on the way, we’d have plenty of opportunities to use it over the next few years. It arrived tonight, and I’m already so glad to have it. Henry helped to try it out:

It was a good test – it’s just long enough for him, and also flexible enough so that he can push on the sides/end for extra room.

I’m very excited about it.

The first “girl” knitting project

A little aqua, lacy flower hat for a newborn, being modeled by a grapefruit. (A melon would have been better sizing, but the grapefruit was what I had in the fridge.)

Such a fun, satisfying, excellent knit.

I had to go and find new projects for my ravelry queue – all of the baby sweaters I had were for boys. It is so fun to be able to go and pick out girl patterns, too. A whole new world of knitting potential. And while that blocks, here’s the start on the new Garter Stitch Baby Kimono.

It’s just a lot of knit stitch for many more centimeters, especially knit in sock yarn. But the yarn is amazing. (My first time knitting with Madelyn Tosh, and now I see what all the fuss is about – so soft, and such subtle, sophisticated color variation. It’s lovely to work with.)