(Otherwise known as the Mason-Dixon post)

I finally got it out from the library. Time to see what all the fuss has been about… My verdict: it’s worth picking up and paging through. It’s nothing earth shattering or anything like that, but there are some fun ideas and inspiration. There are a handful of projects that I would like to try out and a couple of projects worked as springboards for my own creativity.

It’s mine for the next couple of weeks and I’m going to do some playing around. For instance I have a feeling that Mother’s Day is going to be a very dishcloth intensive holiday. Which was actually my motivation for checking it out when I did!

I was looking for a quick fix knitting project last week. Something with instant gratification written all over it. Bib O’ Love to the rescue!

After 3 kids, what’s left of our collection of bibs (which were all hand-me-downs to begin with), is well, a sad collection of rags, a matter that I’ve been meaning to remedy for quite some time now. One night I picked up some cream colored organic cotton that I happened to have lying around and churned out my first bib o’ love that very night.

I’ve actually been wanting to make these for a while now. They are just so obvious, I mean it’s a square with straps for goodness sakes! But they are so freakin’ adorable. The ones in the book actually aren’t that cute, but I’ve seen plenty of people use this pattern to make ones that are.

Since I was using such a plain color, I really wanted some texture. I worked it in a somewhat random combination of seed stitch, stockinette, and reverse stockinette, with a few yarn overs thrown in for interest. I adjusted the pattern (ha!) to make one strap longer and one shorter so that it buttons on the side instead of in the back.

Leave it to me, my kid needs a bib, so what do I do?? Well, first off a knit him one. Then I deem it too cute to actually use. I’m working on getting over it. Really, I’m trying. I’m taking it slow. For now he’s allowed to wear it to eat things like, say, banana…

Night two I used some leftover cotton from Iain’s sweater and whipped up a more work-a-day version, straight from the book (with the exception of shortening it a bit because I was running out of yarn).

I think it also looks pretty cute. Galen found them on the back of a chair and won’t give them back. He likes to wear them layered. Funny little guy. He’s totally into ‘dress-ups’ already.

Yes, I know he’s wearing a pink shirt. Why does everyone feel the need to point that out to me???

Ok, so was all of this rambling on all about bibs???? Oh my….