Haven't been posting--too busy knittin'!

Sorry for the long break in posting...I've had a lot of knitting going on though and I'll get started with the
the overnight soaker I'm working on for my toddler...kinda goofed on the rise and made it too long. I'm going to frog out about 2.5 inches, add the cuffs and the decoration.













Next are the Jungle Longies I'm making for the boys.

These were so much fun to dye, but a little tedious to knit because the yarn was a little thin...so it seemed to take forever! I dyed them with lemon lime kool-aid and then over dyed them with splotches of green food coloring to get that "camo" look. I want to embroider a dino on the hip in brown.

I also knitted a little hat for a sweet baby girl born at our church, but I forgot to get a picture of it!



I've got three more projects on the needles: a tiny soaker for the above little girl made in acrylic since mom doesn't want the hassle of wool (my Sunday project), a bulky hat knit with two strands of yarn, and another pair of longies...this time in an Aran weight yarn that should knit up faster! I'll post pictures of these projects another time.

Another Action Shot...

And here's Thomas in the Fern & Faerie with the Fair Isle band I decorated it with.

Action shots...

James in my recent experiments...changing to continental knitting, new ribbed pattern, and dyed a denim blue.

Finished Two Soakers!

Man, we're having a disaster with some disposable diapers that we got for free from Amazon - they leak like crazy! So I'm trying to catch up with our wool soakers. I really hate the PUL covers for our cloth diapers. I finished off two soakers that I had in progress...

This first one is a ribbed soaker...which means it takes FOREVER to knit up. But it should fit for a long time! I then dyed it with Denim colored dye...it turned out a bit blotchy, but it actually looks kinda cool. I think I needed to wash out the lanolin left in the wool yarn first. It's darker in real life than what shows up in the pictures (see the deck board color difference between this pic and the one below!) I think I'll try dying the yarn before knitting next time (although I already have a pair of longies started, sigh).

This one is a simple soaker pattern that is fast to knit up, but I used my inexpensive, although boring, yarn to knit it with. After it was finished, I decided to add a little fair isle border across the rise and I like it a lot more now. Actually, I had a lot of fun with the decoration and plan to do this again in the future...maybe with more colors and plan for a more intricate design!

I have one more soaker almost finished...the incredible turtle butt! Hopefully I'll be able to show it to you in a couple of days, along with some pics of these soakers in use.

Baby is cuter than the hat!

OK, so the baby is MUCH cuter than the hat, but I needed another warm hat for the munchkins and just had received my new interchangeable needles. So what better to do than to knit up a quick hat to try them out?

James looks so cute! I tried to get Thomas in a picture with the hat too, but he didn't want to cooperate.

I've been busy knittin'!

Turtle Butt Soaker is almost finished...just have the leg cuffs to finish. Also went to work on a ribbed soaker (right) in order to learn continental knitting (where you hold the yarn in your left hand). Much faster! The ribbed soaker is not very evenly knitted due to the fact that I was learning, but you know I couldn't just practice without making SOMETHING!

I've also started a pair of longies from the legs up...but I want to get these two finished before going much further.

Another Fern & Fairie soaker is drying...

Well, here's another basic soaker ... finished but still drying. My kirtchener stitch was too tight but it'll be ok. Hoping to applique a little bear on the butt to make it cuter.

Here's a photo of my short row...

Ok, so let me explain what you're looking for...

See how on the left you see three ridges and about the middle of that row it goes down to two ridges...that's my short row - it's actually hidden in between one of those three ridges. I really think this is going to be a cute soaker!

First Short Row!!

Wow, I just finished my first short row in the round! I'm working up a pair of Turtle Butt soakers so it's a little different than the tutorials I've seen (they were all stockingnette stitch). It really wasn't too bad and I think it looks pretty good. I'll try to post a picture tomorrow...the flash on my camera is causing the natural colored yarn to wash out and you can't see the stitches.