Braided longies - update/finished

I just finished weaving in the ends on the braided longies! I'll lanolize them over the next couple days and then post a picture of them in use :)

Knitting at night.

Knitting at night while sleep deprived is STUPID!!! I decided to stay up and knit while waiting for my husband to get off work last night. After a couple hours of good progress, I noticed I had made a mistake, 10 rounds ago!! I miscounted and had an extra round, which messes up the cable. My husband (the man who can't seem to find anything while grocery shopping) spotted it right away, then tried to convince me no one would notice and I should just leave it :/

I know the mistake is there, and it would bother me every time I saw the longies. I can't leave it. I am just a little too OCD to allow that.

That longer section just messes up the look of the braided cable.

The only question is, how do I go about this? Do I just take the needles out and frog back to the mistake, then carefully put the live stitches back onto the needle? Tink back 10 rounds? Try to make a too-late life line? Or just drop the cable stitches and try to "fix" just that area? I opted for the last one. It'll be a piece of cake, right?

That doesn't look so bad, now to "fix" my dropped stitches.

Okay so that wasn't nearly as bad as I was anticipating. It was actually fairly easy and quick. It looks alright. Now to fix the other side and then start on the gussets increases.

Maybe I've learned my lesson and won't knit when my brain doesn't function... Yeah right! Lol That would take all the challenge out of knitting ;)

Slowly making progress.

I haven't had as much time to knit as I'd hoped. Once I get the baby to bed for the night, there is still so much to do. Hopefully I can find time to finish these longies soon. He needs some more wool for night time so I can wash his shorties. Anyway, I have the majority of the body done. My gauge is a touch large, but it seemed fine and I'm not concerned if they measure a tiny bit large (we'll see if I end up regretting this decision later on, lol). Here is a picture of my progress so far.

This would be the right side (as in not the left), showing the cable braid. Note that I don't use stitch markers. I figure there is no point since I am using magic loop method and the front and back are split where the markers would go anyway. If I can avoid using extra tools, I do. I don't need extra pieces to get lost in the couch ;)

Braided longies - redo

I have the too-small soakers and longies stripped and FINALLY dried. It seriously took a couple days for them to fully dry. Apparently I was too lax when it came to squeezing the water out :(

The plan, of course, is to frog and reknit in a size that fits my baby. I really loved working with the Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in the Jade Heather color; sooooo pretty! So I am going to start with the Braided longies pattern. I have a huge advantage this time. I can measure my baby to make sure it will actually fit him.

I am a touch concerned about running out of yarn. They may end up being shorties instead of longies, lol

Hopefully I make decent progress and have an update picture in a couple days :)

Update

This was meant to post several days ago, but it didn't, so I'm taking care of it now.

Life has been hectic, so not much in the way of knitting news. My hba2c failed :( I ended up with my 3rd c-section, recovery was kinda rough, had thrush, then mastitis. I am feeling pretty normal now, so hopefully I'll be able to get going on a couple projects again soon. I have a pair of socks currently hanging in limbo; should finish those.

The wool soakers I made for my baby work great! I am very pleased with how well they work. The soakers and longies only fit him for a couple weeks though (he was 9lbs 3oz at birth). The wrap style and the shorties still fit, though I use them mostly at night (use mostly pocket diapers during the day). I hope to make some larger soakers for him and maybe a couple longies. I don't have money for more yarn at the moment, so will be stripping the lanolin out and frogging the things that are too small for him. Kinda sad about that, but at the same time I'm excited to have the yarn available to reknit them in a usable size.

I haven't been posting because my computer took a huge dump on me. I am going to try to post from the app on my phone more, even though it is a slightly painful process. I haven't been able to figure out why I can't post comments from my phone either. I can get part of a comment typed then it sort of freezes and no more text will enter in. I haven't been ignoring comments! I just can't make my phone work right (it does it on both the app and in the browser).

The plan is to train myself to post more often, but keep it short. We'll see how that goes, lol

Some pics of woollies on my baby boy :)

This pair is one of the first soakers I made, the cheeky soaker. He is about 2 weeks old here.

These are the go-veralls, he wore this to his 2 week check up. They are tight, but still fit okay at 2 months old.

These are the larger sized shorties. They come up past his belly button, and the legs are just a bit short for pants. They work awesome and will fit him for a long time. He was a week old here (seriously, I don't were stretchy pants ALL the time ;).

Striped longies here, and oftly small in the rise and waist. I had a hard time getting them on him at about 3 weeks, it was the only time he wore them :( too bad, because they are cute.

Here is the pinkgreen tie wrap. My husband really likes this soaker, and it works great. I don't care for it so much. It is hard to get on snugly enough on a squirmy (or angry) baby, and you have to lift the baby up some to wrap the ties around the back. I just find it a hassle comparied to the pull up kind, though you can get a really good fit.

I don't think I posted about this project, but it is the "Rhino Romper" from revelry.com. Fun knit, great fit, cute, handy buttons so you don't have to completely take it off for every diaper change. Baby is about 6 weeks old here, and the fit is getting snug, I hope to make another one in a larger size eventually. It is a really adorable outfit. Next time I make one, I will post about the process.

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 : )

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