Who's Your Auntie?!?

I am beyond excited!  Yesterday I found out that my younger sister is having her first baby!!  She's due mid-October, so I have to get busy...knitting the baby lots and lots of goodies!  My first project is a really easy one (I hope!) straight out of Melanie Falick's Knitting for Baby.  I had 10 skeins of a really gorgeous somewhat chartreuse-y green Debbie Bliss Merino DK, so I'm making the "Easy Eyelet Blanket" with that.  I think it may have been a discontinued yarn - I picked it up at a yarn store in Chicago for about $6 (total!) several years ago.  I was waiting to have an excuse to make a blanket or something similar with it, to make sure I used up most of it in the process.  I'm not much good with "scraps"!

My sister said her and her husband are going to let the gender be a surprise, so I'm keeping all the colours nice and neutral, nothing too lacy.  But I absolutely want to do something with cashmere, so I ordered some Knit One, Crochet Too "Ambrosia" in Fawn tonight, as well.  There's a lovely layette set in the same pattern book - a sweater, hat and throw.  Think super-soft with cables and ribs!  Classic and yummy...I'll update with pictures of the work in progress as I go along!  I can't wait for that yarn to come in...finally a project I have a deadline for...I'm terrible finishing ones without deadlines - I must have 10 or 15 knitting projects in various stages stashed all over the house.

Am I biting off more than I can chew here??  Maybe...(sigh)...