Been busy of late designing the collection for the summer edition of Love Knitting for Baby.  I really like the finished design!  Will share once the magazine is published.

Since then I have knitted up a premature baby romper with bunny slippers for a customer on etsy.com.  She loved it and requested that I add more premature baby knits to my etsy shop, so I have!  I will continue knitting up some more items, it's something I love doing.

 

In addition to this, I knitted up a matinee jacket and bonnet for another customer using luxury merino yarn.  It was gorgeous knitted up!

My first customer went on to buy my premature knitted bunny set - within 5 minutes of me listing it for sale!!!  Wow!

I'm hoping to have enough time to do more orders and more knits for sale.  I started working on the next commission for Love Knitting for Baby last night, and I received a copy of the current issue in the post yesterday.  If you enjoy knitting for babies I'd definitely recommend it.

I like the new style!  And it came with a bonus baby knits book!  My chick baby hat and booties, mouse baby hat and booties, little rabbit doll and baby lamb rattle designs are all in it.  I had loads of fun designing them.  :-)

Mr Penguin Tea Cosy

I've been busy this last week knitting up the emperor penguin tea cosy design from this month's issue of Simply Knitting.

It is a Christmas present for a friend who is mad about penguins.  Her father invented the Penguin biscuit and was affectionately known as Mr Penguin by friends and family ever since.  I hope she likes this Mr Penguin tea cosy pair!

10" premature baby wrap and loafers knitting pattern

Just finished this morning!  A new 10 inch premature baby wrap and loafers knitting pattern.  Available on etsy.com, ravelry,com and ebay.co.uk.

Twitter Knitter

I've recently signed up to twitter.com.  Have a look at https://twitter.com/designbabyknits.

New premature baby design:

Available on ravelry.com, etsy.com and ebay.co.uk.

Professional Knitting Pattern Leaflets

The time has come for professionally producing the patterns I sell on ebay and on etsy!  A lovely lady from Ravelry contacted me to see if I'd be interested in getting my patterns printed as she was starting out a printing business.  I've contacted printing businesses before but although I thought the finished products were beautiful, it just wasn't practical having to print a huge amount of each pattern at a time - so I was delighted to hear that Louise was happy to print small numbers.

I decided to start with my premature baby patterns, as well as my popular little baby shoes.  Now when people purchase these pattern leaflets, it is a pleasure posting them out a high standard product.  I was very happy with the printed patterns Louise did for me.  And it is very exciting seeing your designs printed like this! :-)

Big Easter Bunny

The newest copy of Knit Today is out and my Big Bunny is in it :).  It is a really simple design, easy for beginners to make and is larger than most of my toy designs.

New Premature Baby Cardi and Hat Pattern

Let me introduce you to Rosa Mia, my new little premature reborn doll, wearing my latest knitting, a little cardi and hat design, in pink and in blue.  You can find the pattern here https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/261351196/pdf-knitting-pattern-download-for?ref=shop_home_active_1 in etsy for £2.50 plus VAT if applicable.

The sleeves are wide on this cardi (to fit 10 inch chest, actual size 12 inch) to help make dressing the baby easier and they are closed over neatly with a button to the cuff.  The simple hat features a sweet little reverse st-st border.

I loved designing this little outfit and I think that I will be making lots more of them to send to my local neonatal unit.  I think mint and lemon would be nice too, and would be good for families with triplets!

Hope you like it! :)