Knit Squares

I have been working on a baby blanket for our little Wheat.  I bought the yarn before we knew if we were having a boy or a girl.  At that time, I really thought we were going to be having a little boy, so I tried to buy fairly gender neutral colors then if it was a girl I could put some flowers on it to make it more girly.  I do love the colors, especially since little Zoe will be born in the fall, the colors are perfect for that time of year.

So, I used 9 colors and made 9 rows of 9 squares per row.  It took a good bit of time to knit all the squares and then piece them all together, but I think it turned out great.  It is a pretty simply blanket, but since it has so many colors in it, it makes it look a lot more complex than it really is.  

Starting to piece together the squares

Crochet flowers on knit blanket

I didn't really get a picture of the whole blanket, but this is a good chunk of it.

25 Weeks!

22 Weeks

I found one from 22 weeks.

23 Weeks

I missed 22 weeks, but here's a picture of me and Zoe at 23 weeks.  Not really taking it as a belly pic, but you can see the belly in it pretty well so I guess it will work :)

20 Weeks

20 Weeks, we're halfway there!!

4D

We went to the doctor again yesterday to do a detailed ultrasound at 20 weeks.  I'm half way there!  It's hard to believe.  It was so great to get to see our little Wheat in such detail.  She was moving around so much while we were looking at her.  It was good because we were able to see many different parts of her, but it didn't bode well for trying to get a good 4D picture of her face.  Oh well, we were so glad to see her moving around.  She is above average in weight, but it's all length not width :)  I told the doctor we were trying to have the longest baby born in this country.  He said we had a good chance but there is a Danish couple who will probably be fighting us for the record.

So, it's not a great picture because she kept moving around, but here is her little head with her hand (with all five fingers) by her mouth.

Boppy

Living overseas tends to make you a little bit more resourceful.  We don't have everything available to us that we did in the States, and even if it is available, it is usually outrageously expensive.  In the States, it seems that a common staple for new moms is a Boppy pillow.  I have seen similar pillows over here, but they are not quite as big and they are quite expensive still.  So, I decided to make my own!  On Pinterest, I found this tutorial for making a slip cover for your Boppy pillow.  I thought to myself, I can just make this cover and take it to the pillow man down the street and get him to fill it up for me.  It might not be exactly the same, but it should be good enough and I won't even know the difference.

So, I purchased my fabric in the souq, costing me roughly $1.25 for a meter.  I decided to make another as a gift, so I ended up buy two matching fabrics to make a double sided Boppy.  I printed out the pattern I found on that website and got to work.

Here are my two cut and sown fabrics

Andrew and I walked down the street to our pillow guy.  He was obviously from a village or something because his Arabic was incredibly difficult to understand, but we left the pillow cases with him and a few hours later Andrew went and picked them up.  It cost us approximately $5.

The finished products

I am pretty pleased with the results.  I am sure it is not the same as a real Boppy pillow, but I won't know the difference and this one only cost us about $6.25 rather than the $40 it would cost for the real deal.  This is the actual pillow, so if it gets dirty you can't really wash it in the washer, but I am thinking maybe I'll make a slipcover for this pillow.  I don't know yet, we'll see.