Something other than a baby blanket
Posted by Kirsty
September 6, 2009
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After a month long hunt for a wire coathanger (the dry cleaner down the road gave me one for free – how sweet!), I was finally able to finish this mobile yesterday – just in time to present it to my friends, who came over for dinner, despite their little boy being due in four days’ time. I think that I’d be scared to leave the house that close to my due date, but my friend is the most super relaxed mum-to-be that I’ve ever met. She even braved my fetadews (TM), which are those spicy little pepperdew peppers stuffed with feta cheese and roasted – nommy. Anywho, I’m getting off topic. I’ve made a baby blanket for nearly every baby that has come along in the past few years and I’ve gotten a tad bored of blankets. So, I decided to make a mobile, which was fun and quite easy. It also involved minimal knitting – a bonus, as I’ve really not been in a knitting mood lately. I’ve started socks, a scarf, and a cardigan and tossed them each aside in a fit of ennui. Now that the autumn weather is setting in, perhaps I’ll feel more woolly. As is probably quite obvious from the picture, all this mobile entailed was wrapping a bent wire coathanger in material strips and ribbon and dangling a knitted bird from the middle – simple! You could get as creative as you fancied, I guess, substituting the bird for something else, or adding more to the frame. I tried to keep it quite sweet and simple, which I think has worked. I’d like to make more, but I don’t think that I can keep pestering the dry cleaner for free coat hangers!
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