In need of some knitting

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 😊!

My first pieces

I love knitting small projects and experimenting on different pieces and patterns. Here you have some of my experiments:

My first baby hat

My first baby blanket

My first baby cardigan

My first baby cardigan knitted from top to bottom

My first baby dress

My first baby vest

My first baby shoes and headband

My first baby toys

My first stress ball

My first baby cardigan with hearts

My first skirt

Knitting with hearts – how it started

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.

I also did a few more things for her:

 

Since then, I have been knitting much more, mostly for babies, and my favourites are baby hats with hearts.

… and that is how it started!