Happy Birthday, Hallie!
My littlest niece Hallie turns one year old today!
To celebrate, of course she gets her first birthday sweater! This is the Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman, knitted in Creatively Dyed Yarn's worsted weight merino, color Paisley. I LOVE the colors in this yarn, and the way it knits up all squinchy. This is the second EZ sweater I've knit for Hallie... I wonder how many other great Zimmerman patterns I'll try out for her!
I wish you could squeeze it. So squinchy!
The sibling gifts were handmade this time, too. Remember Maggie's b-day sweater? Here's the miniature version for her new American Girl Doll, Kit.
(This Kit borrowed from Wendy's daughter for trying-on and a photo shoot. Yes, Wendy, I did it all by myself!!!)
Mom had the perfect buttons in her button box and let me use them. Woo hoo!
This past summer when the west coast Higgins family came to Ohio, Calvin found a tree root growing above the surface out by the playhouse in Mom's backyard, and told me he'd found a CROCODABLE!!! So I figured he needed a croco-dable of his very own to play with.
Pattern is Hannah Kaminsky's Baby Alligator free amigurumi pattern. I used odds and ends of Cascade 220 from my stash! He turned out adora-dable!
Lots of love to all the Higgins kids... and their parents, too! Hope you have a happy first birthday, Hallie!
3 comments:
I loved your post!!! I adore Hallie's sweater and Kit's sweater. And the crocadable is absolutely, outrageously terrific! You are such a creative genious. You must spend hours and hours trying to find the perfect gifts for your nieces and nephew. Will you be my aunt, too?
Barbara stole my thunder - I want you to be my aunt too!!!!
As a reminder, I wear a size 10 in booties.
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