Thursday, September 03, 2009

Early blossom....

Paul has just recently acquired a teeny tiny niece.. and i mean teeny tiny! she was born at 33 weeks gestation, and now at 4 weeks old she weighs just 2.2kg! And what knitter can resist making things that tiny?!

i needed something soft, which my stash is sadly lacking in (my poor kids!) but was pretty disappointed at the incredibly insipid ranges of colours at the local yarn store, so i bought 150g of white 4ply merino & dyed it myself using raspberry procion-
i wasn't really intending it to be so dark, but with dyeing i quickly learnt to let go of tight expectations! ;-)
(and for the record i achieved this result by using 1Tbsp of soda ash + 1/2Tbsp of procion to 2C of water - ie too much dye in too little water, thus rich colour where it hits, but not enough to go around - and then another 1Tbsp soda ash in 2C water)

And then knit some of it into this-
using the Blossom pattern from local clever person blog Tiny Happy, adjusted down to a premmie size :-)
(details are on my rav page)

the needle in the top pic is 14" long so you can see it's pretty tiny huh?!
i hope the recipient likes it!

4 comments:

Nikki Elisabeth said...

Omigosh. How could she not? It is GOOOORGEOUS!

xo

Hannah said...

just precious!

Anonymous said...

Thats so dinky!

Nova said...

lol it's about to get dinkier!! i've just got some pics of it in action...