Nerdy Gerdy and Names

With all the business and fatigue in my corner, it was about time that I put something new in my store. I keep getting custom orders for diapers in, and so while I’m still busy, I don’t have much new to present otherwise. However, the site that hosts Nerdy Gerdy (hyenacart.com) and that I advertise on gets me quite a few bites for my wool items. In fact, they have given me all of my business when it comes to the wool covers. Since I’ve had a few email requests through prospective customers there for more wool wraps, I thought I’d gather the ones on the “only needing finishing touches” pile and just add buttons and weave in ends. Only 2 of the items in this picture I actually started and finished this last month, so as you can imagine, I’m please to see my almost finished pile down, and my finished pile go up!

So tomorrow morning, these will be added to the store, and I’ll have one more custom order for a partial stash of diapers available. Perhaps the custom slot for wool as well, since that has also been requested. I just love these wool wraps. There’s ribbing for where baby needs a bit of extra protection, and cute buttons to make it fit well for so much longer than soakers.

I had so much fun with the variety of wool used this time. For instance the oatmeal colored one in front is undyed, tweed virgin lamb’s wool. It’s wool taken from a little lamb’s first sheering and it has such an amazing texture to it. Then the denim blue soaker is made from Peruvian highland wool, which had to grow on me at first, but now I’m just in love with it. The greenish-brownish variegated one is made with Merino wool/nylon mix and O MY GOODNESS it’s about the softest yarn (not wool…yarn in general) I’ve ever worked with. I couldn’t help but smile when I knitted with it. It’s only 80% wool, while most of the covers I sell are 100%. However, it need only be 75% wool to be effective, so I’m covered. The softness was totally worth that!

I also finished up a couple of dishcloths that I usually only give to family or showers and such. However, I had some ready to go, and have had some requests for those as well.

On a side note, I had another ultrasound this morning. Some of my old friends at the pregnancy center offered to do it, and I was brave enough to bring in all 3 kids for it! The kids enjoyed it for the most part, but mostly paid attention to their Wheat Thins. Our little baby is still growing right on schedule, and both the ultrasounds and the doctor put my due date at December 19th, but my dates would put me at the 15th. Whichever date the baby chooses, we hope that it is at least full term this time!

Knut and I have already begun the name discussion, and it’s funny how our “back up names” for one child is never the given for the next. We feel the need to revisit our choices for each child, and already, ones we liked for the other kids don’t feel right for this one. Well, some names remain at the top of the list, but some are taken off, and still others added. To me, this is the really fun part of pregnancy!

We haven’t always found out the gender ahead of time, but we are planning to this time. However, the name will have to remain a surprise! We never decide for sure on that until the baby comes. We usually have a “short list” of about 2 names or so to bring to the hospital. Except for David. At the time, that was the only boy name we agreed on, so there was nothing more to discuss! We always seem to have a terrible time agreeing on boy names! We agree on literally dozens of girl ones, but the boys, urgh! So we shall see…