Tag Archives: Handmade
Things Come Full Circle
Five weeks ago I wrote about the death of my grandmother, Marie. She was born in 1923 and missed the birth of her first great-grandchild by a mere 20 days. Oliver will never meet Marie, although even if she had lived to see him born he wouldn’t have been able to see the fiery woman …
Handiwork – Mom made…
Somehow I had imagined that by this stage in the game I would have whipped up dozens of baby items for Bump. In fact, I have completed 2 sweaters and 2 hats. Unfortunately one sweater and one hat were for another baby. So at this point I have a sweater for the little guy and …
Handiwork – Taggie
As promised, here are some more examples of the wonderful handiwork done for Bump… I had never heard of a Taggie until KTB showed us the one in the works for Bump. In retrospect I may have seen one, but I had to look up “Taggie” online to see what the appeal might be for …
Wearable Art
In the first of many posts illustrating the creativity and generosity of the staff at HMS, here are some of the beautiful “onesies” decorated by my coworkers. There are more to come apparently? It rocks that we will be able to dress Bump for some time without having to do laundry! PS – I don’t …
¡Sopresa Proyecto!
¡Sopresa Proyecto! is what Liz called the amazing blanket she made for us when she posted about it on Ravelry. Check out her handiwork in the pictures here. This is her first crochet project. In her words she “…may be a crochet savant.” Who am I to argue? We have many crafty friends. If you …