Striped longies.

I have no red wool yarn :( So no monster longies for now. I frogged the striped longies and am reknitting those instead. The orange and black alone would not be enough yarn, so I added the avacado green and reduced the size of the black stripes.

I am using size 6 needles (size 4 for the waistband) for a gauge of 5.5 stitches per inch. I measured my little guy at 17 inches at the waist, 20 hips, 17 rise. I intend for them to be big so cast on with a 3 inch ease, or 112 stitches. Each color stripe has an increase of 4 stitches (ending up with 124 stitches), plus one short row. I could have added two short rows per color stripe, but don't want it to be so obvious that there are short rows (nothing like chunky stripes on the tush to give it away). In the photo the back is on the right side.

I am nearly done with the body section of the longies. I will finish the green stripe, the next black stripe, then start the gusset in the -orange- color. I am a bit nervous about possibly running out of black yarn, as I intend the cuffs to be black. I have used up approximately half a skein worth of yarn. Now that bub is getting bigger, those skeins of Wool of the Andes worsted don't seem to be going very far.

I've been working on these for nearly a week now. I hope to have more time over the weekend, and possibly get them finished up. Lanolin is on my shopping list, and I have some woolies waiting to be lanolized so might as well do these at the same time if I can. I have been getting very little knitting done, so it will feel great if I do manage to finish something.