Handmade Gifts for a Baby

We had quite a productive weekend, esp. me. Finally managed to finish a lot of projects and a lump of them were for some handmade gifts for our neighbour's new baby. 

To wrap up the gifts, I made these wrappers which are free to download from here. An extra page is available in case you need to increase the length of the wrapper. Download, print, and cut the wrapper. Add a bit of double-sided tape on the edge of the wrapper. Write in your dedication and then wrap it around the gift.


For the gifts, knitted a blanket from Erika Knight's book Simple Knits For Cherished Babies with the baby's surname initial in the middle. Sewn in a little cotton/linen tag that says 'handmade' on the very edge/corner of the blanket. You can find the labels at aCloset.com.

At the last minute, decided to also crochet a little toy/blankie bunny, which I couldn't resist when I saw the pattern. For the latter, I improvised quite a lot. Did not use 2 strands to crochet, made the bunny head slightly bigger, used a contrasting colour for the edging and did a  lot of changes to the size of the blankie. If you want to do this, I would highly recommend adding more chains to the 'arms' because it was quite a challenge tying the knots. I've already added about 4 chains plus the edgings but because the yarn is quite thick it still was not easy tying the knot. Overall, the toy is quite easy to do.

Put all the stuff in a diaper bag that I did some time ago. You can find a few left on aCloset.com, too.

Pixie Hats

Recently, I finished knitting 5 pixie hats for my colleagues. It took me a while to get started with work and kids taking up most of my time. I found a very easy pattern for the hats from craftbits.com. As I did not have the exact yarn specified in the pattern, it took 2 attempts before I got the size right.

For this project, I used 2 strands to knit the pattern. For the edgings, I crocheted a contrasting colour yarn, and used the same yarn colour for the pompoms.