Incoherent Scribblings

Mostly Baby Babbling

I don’t care if you like “cute” things or not. Nor do I care whether or not you would ever stitch a Margaret Sherry pattern: I challenge you to look at this little guy and not smile. See, I didn’t think you could do it… After all, he even made Hubby smile!

So, as you can tell, today I finished Margaret Sherry’s “Snowman” and in all likelihood it will be my last happy dance of the year. I did start a small project a couple of weeks ago that I might be able to finish, but instead of being a 2005 finish it will probably be my first finish of 2006.

However, my first fully-planned project of the New Year is to stitch a baby sampler for my nephew.

When my niece was born in 2000, I stitched her a baby sampler, but when I did it I hadn’t been stitching very long and as a result though it is nice, the pattern is fairly simple and done on Aida cloth. Unfortunately, my niece’s sampler is one of those pieces that I finished and gave away before I started documenting my stitching, so I currently don’t have a picture of it. However, I will be sure to get one when I am home in a few weeks.

Anyway, given its simplicity, and even though I hated it when my sister and I got the “same” things as a kid, I really want to stitch this pattern again for my nephew. I have even thought of a way to change it so that while it will different from the first one, it won’t appear to be “better.”

The pattern is called “Baby Feet” and originally came as a kit with white Aida cloth. In order to personalize it, in addition to the name and birth date, you choose the color of the feet according to the gender of the baby. Luckily it is a Leisure Arts pattern/kit and has DMC numbers instead of some funky proprietary floss color numbers, so it will be easy to do it again.

When I stitched it for my niece I stitched it with the floss and on the cloth that was supplied, but when I started it we didn’t know whether she was going to be a girl or boy. At that point I was very much into giving gender neutral things anyway, so I stitched the feet in some “Baby Green” (DMC 966) from my stash.

Fast forward almost six years and this time around we know that my sister is going to have a boy. (I saw what my sister claims is his “thing” on an ultrasound picture.) As a result, I am going to do the same pattern, but on 28 count light blue Evenweave with white baby feet.

As usual, I will be documenting the stitching on my nephew’s sampler but in all honesty I don’t expect to finish it before I go home. However, I do expect to finish it while I am there and I may even get it done before my nephew actually arrives!