Heirloom Christening Blanket

I finally finished Alex's christening blanket. I started it a week before his christening thinking that would be plenty of time. We had only booked the christening a week before and thought that would be plenty of time. However we cancelled it as not many people could attend with it being short notice. Anyway there is no way the blanket would be ready as i had completely underestimated how long it would take.

I got the pattern from Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/heirloom-baby-blanket, I have a to do list on there that i will never get through in a million years and am constantly adding to.
 The Yarn i selected was Jarol Baby Teardrops in a lovely Cream that has a slight sparkly thread running through it. I have used this before in party cardigans and shrugs for Molly and find that it doesn't seem to bobble or go fluffy, and as i would like to think of this blanket being passed down for the next generation, i needed it to have longevity.

Like i said i started it the week before and at first i seemed to be ploughing through quite quickly. After buying Four 100g balls and thinking this would be plenty i realised that i would need more so off i went to the wool stall, only to discover that they had none left. After rooting around in the back however they managed to come up with one more ball, brilliant i thought i can finish it with that. No, that quickly ran out as well so i had to go online and search, luckily i found some and had the foresight to order a couple of balls and after i got back from holiday was able to complete it. We will book his christening in for later in the year and he can use it.

 I am so happy with how its turned out and think i will be making a few more of these.

In other news i was delighted when i spotted these whilst i was cutting the grass.

Passion Fruits!!! I have a passion flower plant, if that's what they are called but i never had fruits on it. I let the kids eat them. They were very soft and all that was inside was like a raspberry, but the kids enjoyed them.

I am amazed at the progress on the field opposite, its been really interesting to see how they have managed to level it to make the new football pitches.

Back to the decorating now xxx