Population boom

Every year or so, it seems that suddenly almost every married friend I have around my age is pregnant. Right now is one of those times: I know 7 pregnant women and 2 women that have had babies in the past two months. Luckily, I love making gifts for babies. And while I can’t make gifts for everyone, obviously, I do try to make gifts for close friends.

Here’s my most recently completed baby gift:

These pictures were taken before washing and drying. Unfortunately, when it came out of the dryer, the lovely (and very time-consuming) running stitch lines had shrunk more than the rest of the blanket, pulling it into a wonky mess. So those are no more. I think it looks okay without them - not quite as cute, but oh, well. Being machine wash/dry -able is more important than looks and those lines kind of seemed like baby fingers might get stuck in them anyway.

And when I’m not making gifts for other people, I’m working on ones for our “baby.” Here’s Laika enjoying her new homemade bed and granny square blanket: