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.