I'd hoped to be posting photos of Ginger wearing her knitted finery by now, but she's staying put and I'm still knitting to while away the time. I started a blanket pattern that I made for Spencer three years ago, only using different, more feminine colors. His was white with two shades of blue; this one is white with three 'hot' hues of Simply Soft: mango, papaya, and jonquil (I'd have used the Lemonade from the Brites line but I couldn't find it).
It's not a difficult pattern to work; the white is slipped on the colored rows to make the dividing 'lines', and I'm carrying the different colors up the right side of the blanket because in the end a ruffled edge will hide the strands. It's been ages since I knit a blanket, though, and I'd forgotten how w i d e those things are and how heavy the circular needles get as the blanket grows in size.
I've also started a(nother) baby cardigan, this one a pattern from Plymouth using Fantasy Naturale yarn. It was a sort of desperate 'get-me-through-these-last-days' project purchase. My LYS had only five shades of the called-for yarn: white (totally impractical for a baby), lilac (cute, but someone just made Ginger a purple-y sweater), sage green (she has a sage green sweater already), variegated khaki/tan/blue, and berry. I liked the variegated, but for a pattern that has a lacy design throughout most of the body, I thought the variegation would be too much. So berry it was.