Knit Your Hearts With an Unslipping Knot

 Speaking of meaningful lives and balance, I have three baby blankets to knit by August 22nd! Oh twist my arm, a trip to the yarn shop was in order. Traditional pastel colors are not so popular these days, which makes for some pretty creative baby blankets. I have one nursery to match a "growing" theme....she's getting bright oranges, greens and blues.  Another nursery has a ladybug theme, but they aren't really "red" ladybugs...whatever that means.  She's getting a pretty pinkish reddish varigated yarn. My knitting skills are slightly beyond advanced beginner. Actually, my best friend teases me that my baby blankets resemble the hand knit dish cloths I made her for Christmas! 

NPR is running a series called the Baby Project. They sent out requests for readers to share stories and pictures of their newborn babies wrapped in the traditional hospital pink & blue striped receiving blankets....way cute. They received over 2,000 stories and photos. I loved the story about the mom who lives on a small island and got all the babies born within a 6 month range together for a picture (something like 8 of them) because the island is so small, they'll go clear through high school together. What a great idea!

This post inspired me to find a purpose for this sweet little journal I purchased months ago, but just couldn't think what to use it for.... the cover quotes William Shakespeare, "Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot."
Thinking I will turn this into a project journal and save yarn samples and pictures of completed projects wrapped around their new owners. Do you have any thoughtful ideas of how to track your projects? Or unique baby blankets to share?