This spring I had a sense of impending doom . . . you see, I found a pattern for a knitted baby bib I couldn’t resist ordering. “Eat your Peas!” from E-PatternsCentral. I could see myself wandering the streets bib in hand, looking for a baby! Thankfully after I bought the pattern, two of the neighbouring ladies obliged by having daughters this summer! (phew!) I have now finished two and am starting a third since there is enough of the original materials, here kitty, kitty, kitty. . .

House of White Birches design by Liliane Dickinson with special thanks to Lisa for her inspiration to start multi-coloured works!Just a note on purchasing the Adobe Acrobat patterns from e-patternscentral.com – the acrobat reader relies on something on your hard drive to allow you to open the pattern in the future. After a computer reload I could no longer access the three patterns I purchased. I found it a total hassle to put down my knitting (does anyone else knit at the computer?) and wait until a throng of e-mails swarmed to be able to download new copies. Now I have secure hard copies for future use.

Despite the interrupt to re-obtain, the pattern this bib was a blast to knit (& aside from the written directions differing from the graph). The pattern says the green border is a knit picot edge, but to me it is the greatest string of pea-bobbles I have ever come across. That’s me these days just a Pea-Bobblin’ along. And with wiping up three of the things, I finally got some practise hanging onto three different colours. (and the entangled balls and actually going forward!) This is good, because while ordering my Denise Interchangeible Knitting Needles, I saw this pattern . . . in my *not so LNS*

Walking the Dog ©2001 Fiber Trends design by Joanne Clark

So the cutey patootie will get a deluxe coat and may-be the third bib will end up on a drooling Rottie, man, they love my whole wheat raisin bread!