The Knit-Along Continues!

8:55 a.m. And now Trudi has joined along and, even though she thinks she's far behind, if she keeps up the pace she started yesterday, she'll probably finish before the rest of us or, at least, me!

1:00 p.m. Well, naptime went, er, well, it went. The boys napped for 45 minutes, then they were done. I suppose that's one way to decide whether to spend their nap time finishing the soaker or sewing on jammies. Anyway, now we've come to the seaming part of our program. Blech. Hate seaming. I'm trying to bribe myself into seaming with the thought of knitting the leg cuffs.

Here it is, ready to be seamed.


4:00 p.m. Quinn models the one-legged soaker. I may redo the legs to give them a little more room, but it looks like the rest of it stretches very nicely to make a really nice, trim soaker.

Living dangerously

7-22-2006 10:00 a.m. I confess: I didn't swatch. Everyone else seemed to be swatching and coming up with a much tighter tension and needing to go up in needle size, so I threw caution to the wind and went with my 10 1/2 straights. What a renegade.

So, with 5 rows of ribbing done...


4:15 p.m. Okay, so maybe I won't add rows throughout. I will probably still add some through the crotch to add to the rise and the leg holes, but it's looking like a good size with the ribbing and about half of the back done. (Yes, I DID have a nap)



8:15 p.m. So, I thought I'd multitask and do a little knitting with the wees in the tub. Everybody got in, I got BS paste on the boys' heads, blew some bubbles for all three to catch and then commenced to knitting. I got a whopping two rows done before Holden pooped in the tub and I had to pull everybody out, drain, clean and refill. Now the boys are out & clean and Bailey's soaking and playing, so I should be able to pick it up again. Do they know I'm working on something?

11:25 p.m. Babes in bed, there's quiet in the house. Bailey conned Daddy into painting her toenails after her bath. He does good work. They were letting them dry while they read some of Harriet the Spy when I brought the boys up.
I've decreased my way down to the crotch, made the increases and I'm ready to start the front. Not bad for having cast on this morning, huh?

The Ottobre-Knit-As-Fast-As-You-Can-Along

(Thanks, Annalea, for instigating and Ashley, for the perfect title!)

So, it's 1:15 a.m. and I've rubbed pork for tomorrow's cookout and now I'm winding wool. Perfect! Hopefully, I'll have time to get the ball wound before Holden wakes up and looks for a boob. (Quinn just woke up a few minutes ago.)

Meanwhile, here's the wool I'm using:


It's 100purewool merino in their "Orchid" colorway. We're using the
Ottobre Designs pattern and I will be adding some rows in each of the sections to make sure I have a high enough rise for the bumless, yet tall, wees.

This Boob's for You

Well, not really. They're actually for somebody else, specifically a colleague of my mother-in-law who was admiring her boobs. The knitted ones. Anyway, they are leading productive lives as bookends (ok, boob-ends) and, jointly, a conversation piece, fulfilling their wooly destiny.

Here is their practice run. They were just born to their job, no? I think they were enjoying the air.

Now, here's a question for the ages... is it in poor taste to vamp with someone else's boobs?

(Yes, I AM sure that's vamping. I'm not that good at it.)

Please excuse the giant ass I'm wearing. I think that's somebody else's, too.