Baby projects

I've been on a knitting kick for a while so I haven't made any embroidered clothes for Elanor yet. I have enjoyed using up some odds and ends of yarn from other projects for baby socks, though.
This yarn was the leftovers from the Evenstar mitts:

I got a bunch of a friend's leftovers as well:

Matching mitts--which were for a much smaller baby than the socks were and are now too small:

This was a great free pattern called Fiddlehead that I found through PurlBee. I made a lightweight cotton version in a sport weight rather than the fingering weight that the pattern called for. It involved a couple of the dreaded gauge swatches and several calculations but it came out beautifully in the end. Another modification--knitting the body in the round rather than in two flat pieces. I don't care for seaming at all and there is something very soothingly rhythmical about knitting row after row to produce perfect stockinette. It was perfect for bus riding and other odd moments. I was also trying to get in as many continuing education lectures as possible so as to be able to comfortably renew my cytogenetics certification before taking my leave from the lab and working on the sweater during the lectures helped me stay awake and focused. It's working pretty well for sermons now too as I work on the one for Elanor's new cousin, Justice.

Of course, calculating the yarn needed was a little tricky and I ended up with some extra. Every cute baby sweater needs a matching hat doesn't it?