the blue blog archives: the stork is coming, the stork is coming

Crunch time! The baby for whom the Daisy cardigan is destined is due next month, so it's time to get cracking on finishing this one up. Sleeves are finally all done and blocking.

That leaves me a few weeks for all the finishing - seaming, doing the edging for the neck, and weaving in ends. It would be so nice to have this ready to go as soon as we get the birth announcement. When do you all generally send off handmade gifts? Before? Right after the birth? Whenever it's done?

Calmer! These are from my linen drape yarn trade with Lynn (thanks, Lynn!). So cute, don't you just want to pinch their little ball bands?

And check out what the stork sent me by email. A link to this amazing tank knit by Helle in Denmark. Helle and two other very talented Danish knitbloggers started a little spring fling knitalong, inspired by my spring fling tank. This is a clear case of the offspring surpassing the parent, I think! Check out Elisabeth's beautiful, sexy and BLUE tank here! I'm anxiously awaiting Bettina's. Anyone out there read Danish??
[Update: Bettina's put her spring fling plans on hold. But Lise has just started! I love that there are knitblogs from all over the world in all different languages. Can anyone recommend a good web page translation site? It would be great to be able to visit and understand what some of our colleagues abroad are up to!]

Oh and one more thing, a long-awaited arrival. Deborah, one of the very first Ribby Cardie knitalongers, has just finished her ribby! Isn't it a beauty? I know I was only a knitalong mom, but I'm so proud. Sniff. Sniff. Well done, Deborah!

posted by alison at 12:03 am | in baby (sweater) factory

Comments

Hi Alison,
What can I say...thanks a million for your sweet words:-))

Love, Helle

Posted by: Helle at April 23, 2004 2:39 AM

Hey Alison! Check out this site:
http://www.garnstudio.com/ordlister/ordlista-eng.html
You are a wonderful "parent."

Posted by: Dava at April 23, 2004 7:15 AM

Daisy looks great! And I love the colors of the linen drape. Whatcha gonna do with it? And as far as handmade baby gifts...I send 'em when they are done. (so long as they baby still wears that size!)

Posted by: Kathleen at April 23, 2004 7:36 AM

Hello Alison!

My goodness! Thank you so much for all the compliments!!! *whispering* I have to admit that I'm kind of proud of myself too! ;0)

Your version of Daisy is absolutely beautiful! I love the flowsies in texture rather than in intarsia. Can anyone I know have a baby girl, please?!! I want to make one too!

Deborah

Posted by: Deborah at April 23, 2004 9:10 AM

what a weird coincidence! i was thinking earlier, "i wonder what project alison will post this morning. i bet it will be flowsies" and what do you know i was right! looking very cute!

Posted by: vanessa at April 23, 2004 10:11 AM

I always send baby gifts before the birth -- I figure the parent(s) will have their hands full after the birth.

Of course, that is assuming that I get the gift finished before the birth!

Posted by: Katxena at April 23, 2004 11:21 AM

whew! From the title of your post, I almost thought the stork might be coming to YOUR house, LOL! Can't wait to see that daisy cardi come together.

Posted by: Karen Heinig at April 23, 2004 11:21 AM

Awwww...they're so cute. I'm expecting that kind of arrival myself.

Posted by: gwyn at April 23, 2004 11:36 AM

Hi Alison! I'm still blushing!! you are so sweet :) Both Helle and I have thought about blogging in both Danish and English, so you all can read what we actually are doing ;) Bettina isn't knitting spring fling right now afterall, because she is pregnant, so she wouldn't be able to wear it :) But instead Lise (http://lisenygaard.blogspot.com/) has just started!
thanks again for a lovely spring fling!

Posted by: Elisabeth at April 23, 2004 11:48 AM

I read enough Danish to get the gist of their posts. Some of the technical terms and idiomatic phrases throw me, though... I actually speak/read Norwegian, after a year as an exchange student in Grimstad, Norway. Norsk and Dansk are fairly similar in written form, but a vast deal different in speaking.

Posted by: Nathania at April 23, 2004 12:47 PM

Hi Alison,

As Elisabeth has already mentioned I have jumped off the spring fling-train! I am 7 months pregnant and have a 2YO in the house, so I am knitting doll's clothes and am going to knit baby clothes soon. :o) There is no way I'd want to knit a small, sexy top for myself right now, I wouldn't even be able to see if it fits! *giggle* The same "excuse" has made my "Rogue" a UFO. *sigh*
I will NOT be writing in English as a standard, as Helle and Elisabeth has thought about, I have written the explanation in my blog today - in English... ;o)

Have a nice one!
Bettina from Denmark

Posted by: Bettina at April 24, 2004 3:42 AM

Try this link for web page translation

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Love the Daisy cardigan.
Michelle

Posted by: Michelle at April 27, 2004 4:41 AM

Hi Alison. I always send baby gifts after the baby arrives, as I was raised with the sufficiently fatalistic superstition that to have baby goods in the house before s/he's born is to beg the worst of jinxes.

Posted by: kim at April 27, 2004 5:07 PM