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.