the blue blog archives: surprise!

I was shocked when I walked in and saw all my knitting pals and over a dozen pairs of knitted booties strung across the room like streamers!

So many different booties in different styles and sizes - wee one's feet will be quite literally covered!

There were other knit gifties too, like this gorgeous Baby Kid shawl (that I've been dying to make for myself - now I don't have to!) and the giant "Cheeky Monkey" toy from Zoe Mellor's Knitted Toys (both of which were knitted by the amazingly talented and generous Dani).

There was a cute and classy baby shrug and bonnet set for wee one (knit by Shannon) and enough books for me to keep her in cute and classy knitted items for a while!

posted by alison at 8:42 am | in baby news

Comments

Lovely gifts! Neat idea for the booties streamers. It's nice when the older siblings get things, too. When I had my second one some friends made sure the sent the older one a little something, too. Helped cut down on jealousy.

Posted by: Sheri at January 16, 2007 9:43 AM

Hooray! It looks like so much fun! What lovely gifts and lovely friends too. :) I love the shirts for the boys. They're perfect. :)

Posted by: Samantha at January 16, 2007 10:07 AM

So sweet, your lucky to have such wonderful, thoughtful friends. (But you're wonderful and thoughtful to them ... what goes around, comes around). Love all that they did, but especially love the boys "Big brother t-shirts".

Posted by: Sherry at January 16, 2007 10:13 AM

All those booties are so sweet!

Posted by: Jenn at January 16, 2007 10:20 AM

How wonderful!

Posted by: Carole at January 16, 2007 10:22 AM

What lovely gifts and such a nice surprise!! Those big brothers look ready, willing and able!!!

Posted by: Bonney at January 16, 2007 10:26 AM

Wow. What a sweet surprise - great gifts!

Posted by: earthchick at January 16, 2007 10:44 AM

WOW, you sure are lucky!!

Posted by: Helene at January 16, 2007 10:58 AM

great surprise! :) how wonderful! :)

Posted by: jess at January 16, 2007 11:05 AM

Those booties are a great idea!!!!! Very cute!

Posted by: Robyn at January 16, 2007 11:20 AM

How sweet! Look at all those baby booties! :)

Posted by: Amanda at January 16, 2007 11:36 AM

What awesome friends. I love the bootie idea, and so many clever colors and patterns. Congratulations!

Posted by: Wendy DG at January 16, 2007 11:38 AM

What an amazing bounty of knitted goods! There will need to be multiple bootie changes a day! You make me want to join a knitting group again - not have a baby, I had one and now he is a toddler - oy!

Posted by: Sonya at January 16, 2007 11:45 AM

Everyone should be so blessed to have such wonderful, talented and generous friends!

Posted by: Ms. Knotty at January 16, 2007 12:11 PM

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Posted by: Farrah at January 16, 2007 12:11 PM

How sweet! The booties are such a great idea, love it!!!

Posted by: Daphne at January 16, 2007 12:32 PM

Wow! You have some great friends:) Looks like it was a good time. The pictures made me smile!

Posted by: Jeanie at January 16, 2007 12:36 PM

Oh how kind! What a great idea to decorate with knitted booties - only knitters...
Love the shirts for the boys. They look pretty pleased themselves.

Posted by: Miss Scarlett at January 16, 2007 12:58 PM

Oh how wonderful! It looks like great fun!

Posted by: Michelle at January 16, 2007 1:18 PM

Aw, what great friends! That looks like a super fun shower. And the knits! the t-shirts might be my favorite part..

Posted by: Carrie at January 16, 2007 1:39 PM

I am so impressed at the matching of the button on the shrug with the bonnet! You have a great knitting family!

Posted by: Kim at January 16, 2007 2:03 PM

so sweet :) Looks like you had a great time! What a blessing friends are :D

Posted by: Johanna at January 16, 2007 3:21 PM

How great is that - knitters knitting for another knitter. The baby shrug is gorgeous - I love the colors. I've started really liking brown for babies, especially combined with pink or blue.

Posted by: Donna at January 16, 2007 3:22 PM

The booties are great, such a variety, you'll have to post and let us know which ones stay on and which don't!! The shrug is so good, I've been thinking about making one for my baby due in May - after seeing it I am inspired!!

Posted by: Rebecca at January 16, 2007 4:01 PM

That's such a great surprise, your child's feet will definitely be pampered in all of those adorable booties.

Posted by: Allie at January 16, 2007 5:21 PM

OMG! that is so nice of them!
and those booties are just too cute! so are the boys' tshirts! and looooove that shawl!
those lucinda guy books are so cute too! love the owl and the fox stuffed animals the best!
:o)

Posted by: kelpkim at January 16, 2007 5:28 PM

How sweet of them. We just had a girl at our shop have a baby. I made a delicious cashmere bonnet, and cheated and found a knit Mermaid at a local boutique. We've been picking it over trying to rewrite the pattern. I love your blog, and especially love all the fun projects you do with your boys.

Keep up the good work,

Danielle

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916.714.7719
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Posted by: Danielle at January 16, 2007 5:47 PM

That’s the coolest thing ever. What a great bunch of friends you have! I love the monkey the best. His face is adorable.

Posted by: Sue at January 16, 2007 5:49 PM

Awww...that lineup of bootees is so cute! Baby is going to be well-dressed!

Posted by: Sarah at January 16, 2007 6:49 PM

How sweet!

Posted by: ShelbyD at January 16, 2007 7:10 PM

How nice! I love the string of booties!

BTW, did you mattress stitch your circle of friends blanket together??? I'm almost done!

Posted by: Bethany at January 16, 2007 7:29 PM

I was so sorry to miss you on Sat!! But, there was no leaving Disney early. The string of booties looks awesome! (as does that cake...) Am planning to be at KS on Sunday with yep, just what you need now --- ONE MORE PAIR of booties that never got to the string -- and a little sumptin else.... xo Thea

Posted by: Thea at January 16, 2007 7:40 PM

thats wonderful!!
grab one of those books you received and answer this LOL
You've been tagged! The Page 123 Meme
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, look down to the 5th sentence.
3. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Include the title and the author's name.
5. Tag 3 People

Posted by: linda knowles at January 16, 2007 8:31 PM

I love that shrug, and the twins shirts are too cute!

Posted by: Tracey at January 16, 2007 9:04 PM

What a cute idea (the booties) - that baby is going to have some warm feet! And the monkey is great!

Posted by: Jen at January 16, 2007 10:30 PM

what a beautiful shower and such precious knitbuddies! the booties are adorable!

Posted by: debbie at January 16, 2007 10:50 PM

What fantastic pressies that you received. I love all the different baby booties, and the little bolero is just gorgeous. I have those 3 books, and they have wonderful wonderful things in them, so you will be quite busy knitting away.

Posted by: Sue at January 16, 2007 11:52 PM

Oh wow! All those booties are gorgeous! ~x~

Posted by: Jane in London at January 17, 2007 7:30 AM

those are very good friends.
I wish they would do baby showers here in Israel, not that anyone would throw me one…but still…Israel is too damn superstitious, you can't do anything till baby is born.
Gil likes pink also, the other day he wanted pink socks, I acctualy said, pink is for girls not boys...he disagreed...I hope I did the right thing by him, but I can't start buying him pink socks...problem is, we have very little to choose from for boys. It's all grey, black, green or navy.

Posted by: Orli at January 17, 2007 8:48 AM

That's awesome! You are going to LOVE those Lucinda Guy books...they have such cute patterns in them!

Posted by: Ek at January 19, 2007 11:37 AM