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Monday, July 26, 2010
Crafty mother.
It’s pretty hard to do crafty stuff when you have a baby attached to you for much of the day, especially when those crafts have to be held close to your body to be worked. If I didn’t need to be doing crafty crap right now, I’d be spending my time on the sofa, feet up on ottoman, eating sunflower seeds, and patting Em on the head. Em needed more diaper soakers that actually fit, though (I overestimated how big she would be—she’s pretty slim around the middle), so a-knittin’ I go.
This was made from an appropriately named pattern: Frantic Mama Knitted Soaker. The wool is from Knit Picks. It was my first order from them, actually. I’d been using the Paton’s wool available at places like A.C. Moore, but their color selection always sucks so I wanted to try something else.
It’s in the sink being lanolized right now (I’ll explain what that does and how to do it at another time). By tomorrow I hope to be able to get it onto the baby. I think I like the pull-on soakers a little better than wraps right now and they cover the leg/butt transition well enough to prevent blow-outs.
Crafty mother.
It’s pretty hard to do crafty stuff when you have a baby attached to you for much of the day, especially when those crafts have to be held close to your body to be worked. If I didn’t need to be doing crafty crap right now, I’d be spending my time on the sofa, feet up on ottoman, eating sunflower seeds, and patting Em on the head. Em needed more diaper soakers that actually fit, though (I overestimated how big she would be—she’s pretty slim around the middle), so a-knittin’ I go.
This was made from an appropriately named pattern: Frantic Mama Knitted Soaker. The wool is from Knit Picks. It was my first order from them, actually. I’d been using the Paton’s wool available at places like A.C. Moore, but their color selection always sucks so I wanted to try something else.
It’s in the sink being lanolized right now (I’ll explain what that does and how to do it at another time). By tomorrow I hope to be able to get it onto the baby. I think I like the pull-on soakers a little better than wraps right now and they cover the leg/butt transition well enough to prevent blow-outs.
No clue what I’ll start next. (Maybe a nap.)
Posted by Tiffany on 07/26 at 02:39 PM
_______________________________________________________________I missed this post before. Oh my! How Freaking Cute!
I think in your copious free time someone needs an etsy shop!
Posted by Lab Mom on 07/31 at 02:00 AM
***I like this one a lot - the fit is good for her…but she’s growing out of it already. d’oh.
Thought about the Etsy thing. Need to see how I could make it work with, again, my copious amounts of free time.
Posted by Tiffany on 07/31 at 09:46 AM
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