He's here!

My sister had her baby yesterday! Baby Erik was 8 lbs. 11 oz. and 21.5 inches long with sandy blond hair. We were halfway planning on him arriving on Syttende Mai but he was a few days early. He is such a handsome little boy.

He came so early that I didn't have time to mail him all his knitwear! I was trying to take a picture of his tweedy booties over the sink because the light was so pretty and then I accidentally knocked them into the dishwater! Oh well, a little Soak cleared right up.

You can't see the line, can you Russ?

I've been working on a pair of socks for my brother serving in Iraq. There is a pattern for "Soldier Socks" in the book Knitting To Share, but he is actually in the Navy so they will instead be "Sailor Socks". I'm using Kroy sock yarn which I've used before and enjoyed, but I ran out of yarn towards the end of the toe on the first one. These had 80 stitches around which is a lot for a sock made out of that yarn, but there is ribbing and cables which doesn't let it "give" much so more stitches are needed for a proper fit. I didn't even think about that as I was knitting and couldn't get any more of the same color to finish. I had more Kroy yarn for a tweedy pair of socks that was kind of similar and it wasn't too horribly noticeable.


Well then I had all this tweedy Kroy laying around so I knit a cap for the baby on the way. My sister told me how cute yet "manly" all of her baby bootees have been thus far and this hat is no exception. I have a pair of matching bootees out of this yarn too but I need to take pictures of them. That baby will be here in less than a week!!!