Knitted Newborn Pea Pod and Hat

A good friend just had a beautiful baby girl!  The baby is the newest addition to our "POD" (this is what we call our Monday night dinner club).  So I thought she could use an outfit to help welcome her to the group... get it?  Pea pod?

I found the pattern for the pod at Ruby Knits... I knew it was perfect the moment I saw it!

I used a different pattern for the hat than she did.  I just wanted a simple roll top hat.  I adapted a patter from Knitting on the Net

Materials:

• Lion Brand Yarn – Hometown USA – Oklahoma City Green (Or any super bulky weight yarn)
• Size 15 circular needle, set of large double pointed needles
• yarn needle

Cast on 30 stitches

Switch to circular needles and put a marker after the last st

Knit in St st (knit every rnd) for 6" (I ended up purling all the sts because they ended up backwards on the circular needles)

Crown Decreases:
Round 1: k6, k2tog; rep around
Round 2: knit 
Round 3: k5, k2tog; rep around
Round 4: knit
Round 5: k4, k2tog; rep around
Round 6: knit

Round 7: k3, k2tog; rep around

Round 8: knit

Cont in this manner until 3 sts rem. Change to double points when sts no longer fit.
K2tog around until 3 sts remain.
Work I-Cord for 2 to 3 inches.
Draw yarn through the 3 sts on needle and pull through center of stem.

*The whole outfit turned out a little bigger than I had planned... I bet she'll be able to wear it around 3 months or so.  You might want to adjust the pattern if you'd like it smaller!

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

Jamie

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Extra Long Curtains for Super Cheap

Another window treatment post... yippee!  Sorry I've been gone so long; I've missed you all terribly.  Things are starting to slow down and the kids go back to school next week so I should be able to start blogging again.  Anyway, here are our newest curtains

It is crazy difficult to find reasonably priced curtains for really tall windows.  I got the idea to use cheap Bed Bath and Beyond tablecloths from from Robin Flies South.  I am eternally grateful to her!

You can buy any size for $12.99.  That's pretty close to $10 a panel when you use the 20% off coupon (which never expires, by the way).  Not bad, right?  These panels are 120 inches long... perfect for the 10 foot ceilings we have in the house!

I hemmed them just to make sure they don't puddle too much at the floor.

And I made "faux pinch pleats" that I learned to do from Allison at House of Hepworths.  The rings and clips are from IKEA.

Each side of the sliding glass door has two panels and the little window has one panel on each side.  That's about $65 in curtains.  

I tried one panel on each side of the big window, but the curtains wouldn't quite close all the way.  So I chip clipped them together when I wanted them to stay closed.  Just until I bought 2 more panels. 

 Yep, I'm super classy.

I am so happy with how they turned out!  The room is starting to come together... now just to replace the tiny coffee table that gets lost in such a big room.  I'll be posting about other changes in the house soon.  I promise!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  And thanks for sticking with such a slacker blogger ;o)

Blessings,

Jamie

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