Hand Painted Original Baby Hat

Here it is....the very special baby hat, the one and only original hand painted/dyed by me.

A square was knitted with white Shepherd 4ply pure wool. Then I hand painted the dye onto the square in bright pink large dots, then with a brigh blue painted large dots between the pink dots, it looked great when out drying in the sun. When all dry I unravelled the yarn (yes you read all this in the previous post), and knitted it with a 'feather and fan' pattern. And isn't it just gorgeous.


Today I went with the kids and the mother in-law for the 34 week ultrasound. Everything is going great with the baby, she is a biggen, at 34 1/2 weeks she is 6lbs 9oz, hopefully she won't get too large in the next few weeks. She wouldn't play well though (must get that from me) when it was time to get a 3d picture, she had turned away, so we only got an ear. It is so nice to see her tumbling around in there, and to see that everything is as it should be. On the other hand the mum is bordering on pre-eclampsia and needs to take it easy. Back to the knitting, I still have heaps to do on the shawl, which I haven't touched in nearly 3 weeks, and the baby jumper in the bright apricot colour I started on the weekend.

See the nice baby shawl as the backdrop......that was mine when I was a baby, it is nearly 49 years old. It needs a good wash and some mending, which I will get done before grand daughter is born.