FOR BABY….

This is the end of the month and what a month it has been! It’s been so cold, lots of snow and wind yet the scenery with it’s beautiful skies have been breathtaking. Our Sabrina was born this month sharing her birth month with her Aunt Kimberly. Today Samantha has traveled down towards the City for her job and then to visit our new born. I am hoping for pictures when she returns. I have to go to Albany this Wednesday for medical reasons so I will venture down to the City within a few weeks. In the meantime I am keeping busy knitting, a pair of leg warmers and baby hat to match, the leg warmers match her cousin’s. I found the Diva onesie at the fair this year, now that John and Missy are having a boy, I can call her and get that camouflage onesie I saw at her booth, so fitting since John is a Army Reservist. I have some great ideas for Valentine’s Day, but I’ll have to get started, John and Missy have birthdays in February.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CROCHET HAT: With a size G hook, loosely chain 50. Baby sports yarn.

ROW1: skip 2 chains and single crochet in the third chain from the hook. Single crochet in each chain across (48 stitches). Turn.

ROW 2: Chain 1, single crochet in the back loop of each stitch across the row. Row 2 is worked on the right side. Place a marker on it. Turn.

ROW 3: Chain 1, back loop single crochet 48. Turn

ROW 4-6: Work as for Row three. Change to the size H hook.

ROW 7-18: Chain 1, plain single crochet 48.Turn

ROW 19 and 20: Chain 1, back loop single crochet 48. Turn

In the following rows, continue  to raise a chain at the beginning of the row and turn at the end of the row.

ROW 21: Plain single crochet across. You will be ending on a wrong-side row.

ROW 22: Decrease 1, single crochet 5. Repeat across the row.

ROW 23: Single crochet across.

Row 24: Decrease 1, single crochet 4. Repeat across the row.

ROW 25: Single crochet across.

ROW 26: Decrease 1, single crochet 3. Repeat across the row.

Row 27:  Single crochet across.

ROW 28: Decrease 1, single crochet 2. Repeat across the row.

ROW 29: Single crochet across.

ROW 30: Decrease 1, single crochet 1. Repeat across the row.

ROW 31: Single crochet across.

ROW 32: Decrease across.

ROW 33: Single crochet across. End off, leaving  about  10″ of yarn. With a yarn needle, thread the yarn through the ending stitches. Pull them up and sew the side edges together as far as the ridge.

TIES: Measure and cut 3 pieces of yarn, 1 yard long, for each side. Pull the 3 strands through  the 2 ridges on the inside front corners of the hat so the yarn is divided in half. I then divided the yarns and braded to measure 12″, knotted and cut for a little fringe.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR KNITTED LEGWARMERS.

I used 2 double pointed needles with a stopper at one end in size 3 and 5. Baby sport yarn

Cuff: solid color yarn and size 3 needles cast on 32 stitches.

K2,p2, (Rib stitch) repeat for 2.5 inches.

Change to size 5 needles and multicolor yarn and work stockinette stitch (knit one row, pearl one row) for 3 inches.

Switch back to size 3 needles and solid color yarn and  rib stitch (k2,p2) for 2 inches.

Bind off loosely, Sew up the seam.  Make second legwarmer exactly the same.