I finished knitting this little matinee jacket for my soon to be born grandson 💙☺
balls of wool and a set of needles An intricate pattern Making progress 5 pieces completedThey all come together And it’s done 😃💙👶🏻
6 weeks before he was born I completed the jacket. This little item was one of many little cardigans and jackets I knitted for his layette. I love knitting and it was such a joy to prepare these little items for him.
When my daughter was a baby, I knitted a full set of dress, jacket and bootees in green, using the same pattern. Continuity. I’ve still got the set in storage.
And continuing with the same pattern, I knitted a blanket for my daughter. It was meant to have been knitted while she was in labour, but as it turned out, the birth went very differently to what we anticipated and I participated in his birth right from the first contractions till he took his first breath.
And so the blanket took a tad longer than expected….like 18 months longer. But eventually it was done
And its done 😃
It’s now being used for when he goes out in his pram
What a joyous occasion. Today my daughter and son-in-law surprised me with a visit for an ultrasound of baby Peanut and as a treat the nurse let us listen to baby’s heartbeat. oh my gosh, I can tell you the tears flowed…..all 3 of us were sobbing.
Ultrasound ❤
Listening to the heartbeat of a baby from the womb is a miraculous experience.
It was awesome seeing baby’s little body appearing on the screen, just the size of either a lemon or a beet apparently, or perhaps a delicious custard pastry, if you prefer LOL according to the Ovia pregnancy app.
so a choice between a lemon, a custard pastry and a beet….hmmmm, which do we prefer 🙂
14 weeks and the size of a lemon…how extraordinary. Just 14 weeks ago baby was the size of a seed
a delicious custard pastry 2018.07.09
My daughter suggested the pregnancy apps which you can download (for free) and they are absolutely phenomenal. They contain so much information in small bite size (no pun intended) articles, from the size of the baby, to the Mother’s body changes, advice on nutrition and all the changes that are happening to the baby. I’ve loved reading up on baby’s progress. They even show you how big (or incredibly tiny) baby’s hands and feet are each week.
just look at that tiny little hand….
at this stage baby’s feet are ever so tiny
I’ve found it so fascinating reading up on all the changes and progress of the pregnancy and the images on some of the apps of what the baby looks like at each stage are just incredible.
So we’re at 14 weeks now and incredibly it’s already 10 weeks since I first learned that after a very long wait, I am to be a Granny 🙂 Bring it on!!! I can’t wait. Of course besides reading the apps, and now the sheer joy of having listened to baby’s heartbeat and seeing that tiny little body on the screen, we’ve been shopping like nobody’s business (keeping the economy afloat)
and of course I have been knitting like mad.
my daughter loves rainbows, so one of the first items I knitted was of course a rainbow
I love knitting bootees
This is such an exciting and amazing and awesome time. We are all so over the moon and holding our breaths …….keep this baby safe. We can hardly wait to meet this little baby. Peanut is on the way and I’m going to be a Granny 🙂
Not Just a Granny 
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