baby owl shirt

Rosen Calmer yarn, in Delight. Its a pale mango. That pattern I a slightly altered Debbie Bliss patter. I shortened the sleeves and removed some of the taper. I added about an inch because the rolled hem caused the last one I made to resemble a half shirt. I also added the owl cable panel down the right side.

Its a very quick, simple and sweet pattern. I have about 200 yards left in that color and 175 in white, so I think I'll make some striped pants and perhaps some booties if there's anything left.

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a welcomed distraction.. the leaf pattern baby hat

Since I finished another previously started project and only have 2 unfinished ( one of which will be completed by next weekend) I figured it was okay if I started a new project.

My mind is currently a mess, and not of the creative chaos sort that it usually is. Yesterday we put an offer on a house. 4 days ago we were talking about what a pain our current rental situation is and yesterday BAM! An offer was made. Oh my word. I half hope the offer is rejected because moving a whole hobby farm is a daunting task at best. And the house is mostly gutted.

2 or 3 years ago a gutted house would Have been a dream come true. Built it up the way I want with all the jar stuff already completed ( wiring, plumbing, code checks, permits, septic etc). Now? I just don't know if I can hang! Plus my pumpkins wont be mature yet and I'll have to watch them die. Again. Just like last time.

So enter the leaf baby hat. Loslts of counting and keeping track to distract my brain from the multitude of negative. Thoughts and " what ifs". I know I could just focus on the positive, but it would be too dissapointing and depressing having gone through this 3 TIMES already since we moved here 2 1/2 years ago ( Lover is fickle ).

So here's to knitting my blues, stress and future grey hairs away.

Cheers. ::::: toasts invisible microbrew that I wish I had even though its only 10 am::::::

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Teeny Tiny T-shirt Prefolds

My kids decided it would be a good idea to grow. I don't know why and I did try to stop them
I blame genetically modified foods. Anyway- I cleaned out their closet and anything with a " 3 " on it left the building. So what if they're 4 and 5. They were cute shirts!!

So into the donation bag they went. And like many things That find there way into the donation bag, slowly certain things began to find their way out again.

Mainly the t shirts with cute designs. I decided to turn them into itty bitty prefolds. I'm guessing they'll fit 0-3 months. After that they'll make great doublers! Wee ones go through A LOT of diapers so I figure even if they only fit for a month, they were worth it.

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sfabric scraps are fun

Not only do I rarely trash my fabric scraps, but I pilfer them from others. You don't need to spare a dime, a bag of your crafting waste will do Just fine, thanks. I made this bib on the fly as Wells as another that didn't photograph well because I neglected to iron it.

I know a crap ton of preggos right now and am hoping to get there myself one day so quick, cute projects like this are just what the doctor ordered!

My baby hope chest is runnith' o'er so I need to make stuff for those who are ACTUALLY pregnant now ( but the bins I made yesterday don't count since I just announced this proclamation today ).

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aaaaand the interim knitting project

So what you are looking at is the waistband of a wool soaked sleep sack for Invisibaby. Its a 2/2 rib with a lattice cable panel.down the center. The ' blanket' part will be done in moss stitch. I cast on with 4s and increased to 8s after the ribbing. I did an eyelet tow for cording if its needed ( but I don't think it will be). I'm going to do moss stitch for about 18 more inches and somewhere in there increase about 10 stitches in there somewheres an add another eyelet row across the bottom. I'd like to do some sort of decorative edging on the bottom. Add a Picot edging maybe?

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The Invisibaby Diaper Bag!!

This is the diaper bag I made for Invisibaby. The bottom picture is of the bag with the closing flap flipped open. The large print floral is actually two flat pockets. The inside has two more larger pockets stiffened with stablilizer. I haven't attached the strap yet because I need to go get large D rings but the strap is the large floral print as well and has a cellphone pocket. I had enough coordinating fabric to make a changing pad (sans batting for easier fit into the bag)), mei tai wrap and a wet bag!! The whole project took about 3 yards of fabric and cost about $7 (I bought 1/2 yard of the two print fabrics and the blue was left over from a project YEARS ago).

Designing the Perfect Diaper Bag!

With brave, we went through several diaper bag. Then when Mace came along, we added a couple more. They were all good bags, but not for the same thing. We had the GIANt diaper bag with only one small pocket. Thats the bag we started with, it it was just crap all the way around. Nxt bag, a little bit smaller but with lots of pockets. Good bag, but ugly, ugly, UGLY!! Then I made a couple more bags that doubled as diaper bag/purse, they were okay, but I could never find what I wanted because the bag was too deep.

Well, I can't make too many outfits for invisibaby because of the weather thing. A baby only needs to many bibs, so I think i'm played out on that craft. Whats left? diapers and of course, diaper bags. I saved all of the wool covers from my boys, they could use a little revamping though.

So what does 'the perfect' diaper bag have?

A large outer pocket for 'purse stuff' to avoid the need to carry two bags. A smaller, easily accessable pouch for cellphone. Maybe two compartments inside? once for small things like creams and such and one for wipe containers? I had an idea to make sort of an adapted messenger bag. There is a flikr group all about diaper bags and they have some cute stuff. Now I just need to decided what to do...