Archive for January 16, 2009

She Moves, She Moves!

(Yes, the title is a bad Ricky Martin reference.)

Over the weekend, I coaxed Gwen to drag herself a few inches.

Tuesday, she dragged herself a bit more.

Wednesday?


She Moves! from Kim Schell on Vimeo.

That’s right, people. Now nothing is safe.

Stuff on the ground …

Daddy’s computer chair …

Nothing! Mind you, she’s not very quick yet, so she’s pretty easy to keep an eye on right now! We’re hoping to put up the baby gates this weekend though, since I don’t think it’ll take her too long to figure out how to get her legs involved!!

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And she still knits!

Wow. A knitting-related post. Have you picked your jaw off the floor yet?

I thought I’d go back and write about my last finished object. I have a good reason for not writing about it right when I finished.

See the belly in that picture? I finished this puppy on June 11, 2008. The day I went into labour. For scale, you can see my iPod Mini in the right corner. I’m standing on my bed trying to get a full picture of it and you can *barely* see the left edge. (Oh. And I love that you can see my sexy support hose. Oh baby, oh baby!)

I don’t remember very many details about this project. It is a prayer shawl for my Aunt Connie, who was, at the time, undergoing some very intensive chemotherapy for breast cancer.

It’s basically a big, purple hug.

Her favourite colour was purple, so I found a beautiful purple variegated cotton yarn, a fun novelty yarn, and a nice white yarn - Rowan All Seasons Cotton. The middle piece is double knit with the purple variegated and the novelty yarn, whereas the arm portions are some sort of patterned ribbin which I can’t remember.

To be fair, this was 7 months and a lifetime ago.

I knit most of it with my feet up on the couch or sitting on my bed listening to a LibriVox recordings of Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island, by L.M. Mongomery, timing Braxton-Hicks contractions that were coming every 5 - 7 minutes, and waiting for June Bug to arrive.

She was obviously waiting for me to finish this before she came.

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