The sun was trying to come out this morning but the clouds seem to be winning. It’s cooler and less hazy this morning. We had our coffee out on the porch this morning and will until the cold makes it so the coffee cools more quickly than we do.

I’m on a mission this week. I’ve knitted three little baby caps and have two pairs of mittens and one book to add to make three baby gifts for new babies in my life. I have combined a couple of baby hat patterns to make a warmer, slightly smaller hat for a young baby. I hope they work. I am laughing once again because I made three hats, same yarn, same needles, and same pattern and they are all slightly different … my gauge got smaller each time as my stress got higher. What’s a girl to do?

I love this yarn for baby garments and accessories. It’s so soft, perfect for against the skin of a baby and the colors are super fun. I am going to add a couple of pairs of mittens for the northern babies and a book for the western baby but I’m laughing at myself and how noticeable the gauge difference is. As I got more stressed this week my knitting obviously got tighter! (I lined up the other side and they’re almost 1/2 inch smaller as they go up.) Lucky the first one is going to a bigger baby and the other two aren’t born yet.

Now I’m focusing on the mittens and then one Christmas stocking and I’m off into my Christmas knitting. Two hats, a couple of little sweaters, a pair of socks and some toddler mittens among others. Thank goodness it’s only August and I’m planning ahead. I have a bunch of stash waiting to be worked in after that … a couple of sweaters and some other fun stuff. I am especially wanting to start another Lane’s Island Pullover in a pink Berroco Remix Light. I so love my white(ish) one that I am, for the first time, knitting a second sweater. There are a lot of sweaters I want to knit and I’m going to have to focus on sweaters this coming year, after the holiday season, to get some done. I know I have at least five sweaters worth of yarn and my boss just told us to take a sweater quantity of yarn for all the extra work we’ve been doing in the shop in her absence.

I’d better stop writing and knit! The sun sort of came out this afternoon, yay! Gone knitting!