baby clothes – Knitting with hearts

I haven’t been knitting much lately. To be honest, I haven’t hold my knitting needles for over a month now. With the birth of my demanding baby girl number two, my time for crafting became very, very limited. I started a striped baby blanket on the week before she was born, which I finished knitting about a month ago. More than six months have now passed since I started that blanket and I’m still not done with what I enjoy the least – weaving in the loose ends. I love stripes but it just comes with too many loose ends…

I have managed to do a few small craft projects in the meantime… All with hearts and made with love.

I learned how to do duplicate stitch and applied it to these two baby projects:

More recently, I have been practicing my crocheting on a basket for baby toys:

I am almost in desperate need of knitting something… it would be really helpful in managing my currently high anxiety levels. I am feeling though that I really, really need to finish that baby blanket to be able to move on. Hopefully I will show you the finished product soon, and will cast on a new baby project on my needles 😊!

It all started a couple of years ago…

Knitting and other crafts have been part of my therapy in the recent years. Although I learned basic knitting stiches and a few other things from a very young age, I had never put it into something useful, and that knowledge was just stored in the back of my mind… for ages!

After a sad life changing moment, I have then started knitting as a way of relieving my anxiety, and it seems to be working as I am managing to be away from pills!! I hope this and other hobbies work as a therapy for other people too…

This was my first knitting project, a baby blanket for a friend who was expecting her second baby.