Knitting a Bumblebee

[jekni]

My favourite nephew advised at xmas that he and his wife are expecting their first sometime in late July.

So I am currently knitting a Bumblebee Babysuit which looks really cute. It's likely to be rather big for a newborn but will be perfect once kid is a bit bigger and autumn comes around in March/April.

I'm using this as a rest-break from the fair-isle sweater I'm doing for the girls (one each) to use up the yarn I got for their zip-up jackets. Really have to work out how to post some pictures seeing as how I'm being all productive and stuff.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Yes. Pictures. We wants pictures.

Esp. of anything called a Bumblebee Babysuit [g].

[jekni.livejournal.com]

It really is cute - I'll try and scan the picture from the pattern book (although they have done it in purple and gold) and the finished article when completed.

I've done the front and have to do some work on the girls fair-isles before I do the back, fairness and all that.....

Must practice with scanner, too.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Decidedly. Well, let me know when you do post it...

Oh, and thank you for the lovely xmas (new year's?) card. I enjoyed the letter very much.

[filkferengi]

Getting in practice to be a great [great-] aunt? ;)

Great Aunts

[jekni.livejournal.com]

Yup - again!

My sister's middle son and his wife have two now - a boy and a girl - so I'm a great-aunt already. Her eldest and youngest aren't going to be supplying her with grandchildren so that's her lot I'm thinking!

This is the next oldest nephew - my elder brother's elder boy - and then there's a gap before my younger brother's girl whom I don't expect to be sprouting for a while.

But I'm definitely working on the "great" bit. I've finished the front of the bumblebee and now have to work on the fair-isles a bit before I finish the back.

Re: Great Aunts

[filkferengi]

No wonder you and mmegaera are such buds, both being creative & with an avid affinity for the aunt experience. Are yours similarly far away?