Thursday, March 21, 2013

Lacy baby hat, completed!

Again I am slow posting for finished projects : / I made these hats as a gift for the baby I knitted the Larkin blanket for. I used some of the left over yarn, Knit Picks Comfy Sport in "Sea Foam." I used a free pattern found here on Ravelry.com. The hats took very little time to knit up, maybe a couple hours each. It was a fun little knit that should make cute little summer hats for a cute little girl : )



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Wool shorties, complete!

Just a quick post to show the wool shorties I finished! I used just under 2 skeins of Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in the color Merlot Heather (which leaves me one skein left for making a soaker!). The shorties are a size small, but I should be able to use them right away, just pulled up to his armpits, lol



Friday, March 8, 2013

Current knitting plans, and lanolizing.

I just posted a whole slew of finished projects, and I think I am finally caught up. I haven't been posting very regularly here lately, and things were getting away from me.

I have two sink-fulls of baby woolies lanolizing right now. I never really thought about just how long it would take to get a wool item fully prepped for first use. I thought once would be fine, but nope! First time lanolizing needs 3-4 rounds! It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take the thicker wool items two full days to dry between each lanolizing. I am finding that the process is pretty easy, it just takes a while.

I probably have plenty of soakers made already, but I plan to make up a few more. I want to make a couple more of the wrap style soakers. I think they will work best during the newborn stage. I have three pairs of pants made for my little boy, and that really should be all I make in newborn size. I will make a few in the 3-6 month range, but maybe not for a week or so.

To break things up a bit, I started working on a baby hat today. The only problem is that the hat is going to be a super quick knit. To extend the life of the project, I am going to make another one in a toddler size as well. I am making these for the little girl the blue blanket was for, and I am using the left over yarn from that blanket. The hats should be pretty cute and are quite girly and frilly without being over-the-top.

I have a few patterns that I found a couple weeks ago that I need to buy yarn for, otherwise I would be working on them right now.  I found a pretty awesome pattern for a knitted Cactuar!! If you know what that is and anything about me, you can only guess how badly I want to make it! I will make that thing, as soon as I can justify buying "unnecessary" yarn. I also found a pattern for a Totoro toy that looks pretty cool. I am pretty sure my baby boy NEEDS a Totoro toy (at least as much as he needs a Cactuar toy anyway, lol).

That's about it for my current knitting plans. There is so much going on with preparing for the birth and the baby that I don't really have much time to knit outside of school hours. There are so many things I want to make, but such limited time and yarn : )

Slippers for kiddo.

This is something I made today, just because. I used scrap yarn and a random pattern off Ravelry. It took me about an hour and a half to make these during school. My 6-year-old likes them, despite the child's size being pretty snug on her. Not too bad for a random little knit : )


Washcloths for baby!

I purchased Knit Picks Dishie yarn to make gift placemats about a year ago. I had quite a bit of leftover yarn, so I decided to make some cute washcloths for the baby.

I won't post which patterns I used (because I'm lazy) but I found all of them on Ravelry, for free. Be forewarned, none of the following washcloths have been washed or blocked, so they aren't exactly "finished" looking.


 The first washcloth I made was this one: a Dalek!
The pattern was called "Exfoliate!" lol

 In case this doesn't show up that well, this is supposed to be Joe Cool.

Cute little fishies; these are probably my favorites. It is surprising how little yarn it takes to make one of these. I made the variegated blue with a ball of yarn barely larger than a golf ball.

These are the wash mitt version of the fish washcloths, sized for a little kiddie hand.

See? Perfect size for a toddler.

"pinkgreen Knit Wool Tie Wrap," Completed!

I've made a few wool soakers by now, and wanted to try something other than the pull-up kind for a change. I found a wrap style soaker on Ravelry, and whipped one up really quickly (seriously it only took part of an afternoon to knit up). I made it in Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Bulky (discontinued handpainted in the color "Polar." I really hate that they don't sell the handpainted colors currently as many of them were very pretty), and it turned out quite well I thought. I made the newborn size and used about half of the hank.






I think the wrap will be very easy to get a really good fit with, and should fit for a longer amount of time than the pull up style. The wrap pictured above was made for someone else, so I won't be trying it on my baby. I did however make another wrap with worsted weight yarn for my baby, though I did not take any pictures of it. Since I have all the wool items sitting in a lanolin bath at the moment, pictures will have to wait. Obviously the bulky weight yarn made a little stiffer, thicker, and bulkier soaker, but should also absorb more. Both soakers turned out really well and I will be making more of these; hopefully I'll remember to take pictures when I do ; P

Buzzy Bee Baby Blanket

I actually finished this baby blanket quite awhile ago, I am just now getting around to posting. I enjoyed working the pattern which I got from Knit Picks. I used Knit Picks Swish worsted yarn in the amount called for in the pattern, and have barely less than a full skein of each color left over (maybe a cute matching hat?) It only took me 32 hours to complete the knitting and weaving in of the ends, and the end result looks well worth the time spent : )


 Finished and unblocked!

 This is the blanket, lightly blocked.

 Just a little closer shot of the bees.

Folded and ready to be set aside for baby!