Shorties for Ezra

Long overdue pictures here! I've had these finished for a while and they were dry yesterday. I feel yucky. Bleck. :P Stupid stomach bug, getting in the way of my un-interrupted knitting and cleaning and scrapbooking. The girls are having way too much at Grandma's this week, although we are not getting pictures (AHEM!) to prove it. I couldn't get the color right, the trim has more of a green hue to it. The trim and body color are Lion Wool 100% wool and knit on size 7 needles, pattern is sort of a combo of the Belladonna pattern and the Perfection Pants pattern. Neither uses an elastic waistband, that's my first attempt, and yeah, it's kind of "festive" looking! I have another pair of shorts for Evelyn on the needles and the waistband looks SO much better. (Thanks Zersha!!!)

I hope they fit the little Pin baby!

Swish Ruffle Shorts finished!

Ruffle style #2. Super easy to do - Kfab for 2 rows, then bind off. Annoying and time-consuming because you end up with a ridiculous number of stitches at the end and I, for one, hardly have the patience to CO 7,567,235 stitches. Okay that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it sure feels like forever, especially when you're just wanting to get them done!! The yarn is superwash wool from www.knitpicks.com. It's incredibly soft and nice to work with! It is machine washable so these are wear-to-daycare shorties. :)

Action shot ~ see that they are kinda tight over her fitted diaper. They'll fit better over a 'sposie and that's what I intended!

I still need to make a drawstring for the waist, and I'm determined to figure out how to use my lucet if it kills me!! I'm sure it's so easy, but I'm just not getting it. Sigh.

Ruffle shorties are done!

Here they are!

The drawstring is supposed to be a twisted cord...well, it mostly untwisted and it's too thick so I don't really like it. I didn't expect them to fit her either but they fit quite well! The inseam is a little bit long, she has incredibly short legs! They are more of short capris than shorts, really. Brad says they are cute, "in a hippy 60's baby kind of way." lol, I don't think he is fond of the wool clothing. Too bad for him!

Here is an action shot on the darling model:

And another:

Socks and shorts, quite the fashion statement huh? ;) Well, it's cold here today, and rained off and on.

And, just so she isn't left out, here's Oh:

Whenever the camera comes out, she's all posed and ready to say cheese! I told her I was taking a pic of Evelyn's new pants, so she said: Mama! Take picture of my pants! :) So there you go, a picture of Olivia's pants. Pretty exciting huh?

First attempt at ruffles

Well, it was frustrating to say the least! I kept screwing up on the pattern, even though it was simple. You knit the same 3 stitches each round, increasing before/after a set of purl stitches then on the next round purl the purl sts and the increases. Not really hard at all! Ugh. And, I think I've got to watch the Knittinghelp.com videos again because I got some big holes with the M1T/M1F increases that I then tried to "fix" and made it worse. Big loops now. Blah!

Well, here's a pic w/ one leg done and it doesn't look too bad from the outside, anyway!

And an overexposed pic (I blame FIL's camera, lol) of the yucky inside loops:

I'm stalled now because I'm almost out of yarn and my 2nd skein is at home. So, I'm taking a break. I did the first leg with my new 12" Addi turbos and after all that searching for 12" circs, I'm not sure I liked them! Oops. Next shorties I'm going to try knitting both legs at once with 2 longer needles. We'll see how that goes!

Mama! I wash baby's hair all clean!

Sounds innocent enough, right?

Oh has been known to walk around rubbing her hair proclaiming "My hair all clean!" So, I didn't think much of her announcement that she'd washed her sister's hair and continued getting ready for work. There was no screaming from the clean-headed baby, so all was probably well right?

Wrong.

Next she comes up to me "Mama! I wash your hair!" Hands outstretched. Covered in yogurt!!!

In her defense, the pink yogurt is nearly identical in color and consistancy to her shampoo. I said to her "you didn't put yogurt in your sister's hair, did you?" She grins, giggles and runs away. Ah, yes, poor Evelyn, the little girl with short curly crazy hair, is partly covered with strawberry-banana yogurt. Well, at least she smells good anyway. Olivia put the yogurt container on the coffee table so Ev had her fingers covered and was happily snacking away. She was none too happy when I first removed the beloved yogurt and then tried to wash her hair. We needed to be out the door in a matter of seconds.

Maybe it was just some sort of new-age conditioning treatment Olivia had schemed up!