They're ready!!

Preemie blankets galore! We've finally got them all collected and ready to go.

My girls helped me to roll each blanket and attached hat and tie a coordinating ribbon around them. We slipped a small typed note from us as well.

Our goal was a total of 35 blankets and we ended up with 45! ...19 boy blankets and 26 girl blankets.


I separated them for easy distribution. So above are the boy blankets.


I also pulled out a few with particularly small hats to give to the particularly small babies.


Here are the girls blankets.


And the girl blankets with the tiniest hats.


Look at this precious bonnet for a micro-preemie. The bonnet is only about 2 inches high.


They're all ready to go!

Two blankets and a Pitiful attempt at Amigurami

I'm singing praises that we have finally collected enough blankets for the NICU service project. I'll be wrapping them up and getting them to the NICU in just a couple of weeks.

Here are the last two blankets I made:

And here is my pitiful attempts at amigurami.... First, I tried to make a quick frog for a birthday gift. It didn't turn out the way I wanted at all, but Baby L loves chewing on it. G9 watched as I searched online for amigurami patterns and begged me to make the bom-bomb from Mario. After I finished it, E3 wanted a blue bom-bomb and E6 wanted a Mario star (not pictured).






I think I'll stick with baby blankets.

Grannies for Babies

I've got two new preemie blankets to show you. It's so much fun to see the blankets adding up. They're so pretty stacked on top of one another.
For this blanket I used two different square patterns.


The border was fun because I tried an 'x' stitch that I had never done before.


A cute little knotted cord adds a bit of fun to the hat.


I think the large granny square blanket works up the fastest, but the last few rows always seem like they last forever.


I've been wanted to try a bonnet pattern, and this one was really easy.