A few days before we left on vacation, M said she wanted to be a worm for Halloween. I hoped grandma would do the honors (as she did for M's first costume, the sunflower), but she wasn't able. She did manage to buy a few fabrics she thought might work, which she shipped to us, which arrived on Halloween eve. O.k., so the pink fuzzy stuff screamed worm. How could I not do this? So Halloween morning, after dreaming it up during a mostly sleepless night, I sewed this up. My second sewing attempt. M LOVED it. I was going to put a band around the center, the one that worms have, but she was happy with it as it was. And so was I. Thrilled, actually. Even if she did have to tell every single person what she was. (And I was a composting gardener, ever grateful for my earthworm).
And the little guy below was her baby worm.

The baby boom

All my friends were pregnant. Babies babies babies! So I knit hats. First, the hat and booties. The booties were from Vogue Knits for Babies and the hat was a Stitch n Bitch I cord knot hat with some pattern worked in to match the booties. All cotton. Those went to Freddie in England, happily wearing them here. Then came the hat for Jack in Massachussetts. I love that blue yarn, it was a knit picks cotton wool blend. Same type of hat. Then the cotton blue hat for Brandon, my neighbor here in my complex. By that time, I had to try something new, hence the pin wheel on the top (I just split the i cord and knit and then put them together in the middle). And then for Beverly, her family used to live here in my complex, and finally, in time for his baby shower, hat and booties (I found a seamless bootie pattern online, but I made so many changes to it, I couldn't repeat it) for baby Wynter. And his mom asked, will it fit him when he's born? No. So he scored another hat, started 2 days before he was born and finished while mama was in labor. And socks 2 days later, because when you are with a baby when he is born, you will do anything for him.