I’m leaving for St.Paul, MN in about 30 minutes to spend a springtime weekend with my sister-in-law, niece and a few other family members! I think we are going to go to the farmers market, do a little shoe shopping and see my cousin’s new house. What are you doing this weekend? Also, if you are in a bit of a time crunch and don’t have time to make something for Mother’s Day, you should check out my Stella & Dot website, where select styles are 25% off!
If you aren’t having a traditional ceremony, like where everyone walks down the aisle, but certain guests will still have special roles, like making a speech or the parents of the couple, what do you do? Typically the men wear boutonnieres and the ladies in the wedding party carry bouquets but why not have a “unisex” boutonniere that everyone with a part in the wedding can wear? Like the herbal boutonnieres that are pictured above.
You could even have theme drinks based on the wedding parties herbs, like mojitos. Or and this may be a bit much, but you could give each “wedding party” member a starter plant that matches their boutonniere or a recipe that includes the vegetable from the plant and the dried herb they are wearing. Very personalized and pretty practical. Go here for the diy plant favors and here for the diy wedding boutonnieres.
Once Maddy was born and I knew she was a beautiful little girl, I came back home and started to knit her a baby blanket fit for a little lady. I had about 12 skeins of Amy Butler’s Organic DK, so instead of letting them sit on my shelf any longer because let’s face it I was not going to finish that sweater vest that I’ve been “working” on for over a year, I cast-on to make my version of Stitch and Bitch’s Big Bad Baby Blanket.
If you’ve knit the B.B.B.B pattern before you may not see what I changed up but if you look closely I only knit 10 rows in seed stitch and only did a border of 5 seed stitches. I didn’t alter anything else but I think that it helped make the blanket look a little larger from past versions that I’ve made.
And I love how it turned out and the yarn being made of 50% Wool, 50% Cotton made this blanket so soft and so warm, I think going to pick up a few more skeins to make her a summer sweater. Do you remember your first baby blanket?
