First Dyeing attempt

This was my first attempt at dyeing wool. I didn't like the colour of the newborn PP I had made the bubs. The day before I went into labour I decided to try and dye them using food colouring. I was aiming for graduated colours of green. I ended up with lime green, mid forest green, dk forest green.

Unfortunately the colour was not set very well on the bottom of the legs and we learnt the hard way that the colour runs onto sheets once the longies get wet LOL! I have decided to just use these longies for day use when Cadence doesn't sleep as long and therefore is not as wet by changing time.

Bub's Newborn/Small MCN Collection

I have been waiting for my Honeyboy's to arrive before posting this. This is my baby's collection of MCN (fitteds, AIO's, Pockets, covers). I have not included the prefolds and flats as they aren't very interesting to look at and I am still in the proces of making some. I have also not included the woolies as I will do that separately in another post later. With the help of all the prefolds and flanny flats I am planning on washing ever 3rd day so there are HEAPS of covers here!


Newborn Fitted MCN

These are her newborn fitteds: (L-R, top to bottom) 3x NB Cherubs Kiss Raphael's, 4x Whizz Kidz NB Fitteds, 2x size 0 Kissaluv fitteds, 1x xs BumGenius Bamboo fitted, 1x Organic Velour Newborn Swaddlebee fitted.


Small Fitted MCN

These are her small fitteds: (L-R, top to bottom) 2x Itti Bitti Flannel Fitteds, 1x Tots Bots Bamboozle size 1 , 1x Ella's House Bumhugger, 1x Liam's Bum MM Pocket.


Newborn & Small AIO's

These are her NB & Small AIO's: (L-R top to bottom) 2x NB CK Honeyboy's, 1x BumGenius XS AIO, 3x Small CK Honeyboy's, 1x Small LouLou Honeyboy, 1x Small Rumpster, 2x Small Bubblebubs AIO's.


Newborn & Small Covers

These are her covers (not including woolies): (L-R, top to bottom) 3x Eenees snibbs, 2x NB Bummis SWW, 2x NB Bambino Mio, 2x sm Motherease Airflow, 1x SM Rikki Motherease, 1x SM Baby Beehinds PUL, 1x Wonderwrap PUL, 1x SM Tots Bots PUL Wrap, 1x SM Pockey Pockets fleece cover, 1x SM Swaddlebees fleece cover, 1x NB Whizz Kidz fleece cover, 1x Pockey Pockets NB fleece cover. I also have a size 0 Tots Bots PUL wrap coming soon.

Needle Roll

Recently Finished Projects (most recent to oldest):

Needle Roll
I had some fun making this needle roll today after getting my last order of Addis in the mail.

I used the instructions from this website I found http://lupinbunny.blogspot.com/2007/02/needle-roll-tutorial.html and I made only a few minor adjustments.

If anyone is thinking of making one of these I would suggest counting how many of each type of needle you have before sewing the pockets on though. I was too eager to finish as my preggy belly and back were getting very sore from sitting.

If I had a do-over, these are the things I would do differently:
- 30cm Addi circs would fit better in a 3" pocket than a 2" one like I used.
- I would also make the bottom two pockets 1" longer and possible even put another pocket row in, as I don't have many really long needles.

Knitting Update

In The Wool Basket:

From Monster Knits I have:
- 100g of 8Ply in 'Meadow' (different shades of green)
- 100g of 10 BFL Aran in 'Ocean Dreams' (Aqua blue and greys) and 'Fresh' (light greens and pink/puples), 200g of Plum Tree (Plums and greens) with 50g Plum for feature colour
- 100g of Treliske organic 8 Ply in Berry Fuschia and 3 mini-skeins (50g) of Treliske wool in Green (to match Meadow), Purple and Pink (to match Berry Fuschia) to be used for cuffs and waistbands.
- On order - 250g of 8Ply BFL which will be coloured in a purple/green/grey colourway yet to be decided.

From Jolly Jumbuck I have coming:
- 100g of ARTEMIS (Wendy Dennis Polwarth 8ply) in the colourway 'Emily Rose'.

From Suzannes House of Wool:
- 200g 8 Ply merino in Bushdance colourway with 50g ball of contrast colour burgundy.

Recently Finished Projects (most recent to oldest):

These are bubs newly finished Curly Picky Pants and Curly Picky Capris. I had alot of trouble getting these right but I am very pleased with the result. A BIG Thanks to Irene and Shara from NC who gave me alot of help converting the patterns so they could be combined effectively.

Newborn Longies – Curly Purly waistband on Picky Pants

These longies are knitted in the round on 4.5mm circular needles with 3.5mm & 4mm circular needles for the Curly Purly waistband. I used 100g (152m) of 'Marilyn' 10 Ply superwash Merino from Live2Knit in the Tutti Frutti colourway. The colours remind me of fruit tingles LOL!

I did the PP short rows and added width to the waist to allow for growth. For the cuffs of the longies I used part of a crochet headband design by Tracey of 'Desert Rose Designs'. I had some wool left so I made a beanie with crochet flowers that match those I put on the pants.

Back View and Cuff close up

Front view

Small Capris - Curly Purly waistband on Picky Pants Capris

These longies are knitted in the round on 4.5mm circular needles with 3.5mm & 4mm circular needles for the Curly Purly waistband. I used 100g of Aran weight BFL from Monster Knits in the Sienna colourway.

I did the 3 single CP short rows and added width to the waist to allow for growth. For the cuffs of the longies I did picot edging. To embellish I used 3 colours of tapestry wool to crochet some flowers. I used large 6 petal flowers, medium 5 petal flowers and small 4 petal flowers.

I had some wool left over so I made a headband to match as well. The design for this came from Tracey of 'Desert Rose Designs'. I may add some flowers to this once I am sure the circumference is correct.

Front view with headband and Back view

Sewing Update

I got stuck on my Curly purly waistbands and had to find another project so I have been sewing up a storm the last few days.

For others:
I made an 'intro to cloth set' for a friends baby shower today. I made 6 NB/S prefolds, 4 were Flanelette (2,6,2), and 2 were flanelette & terry (2 pieces of flanelette with a soaker made of 2 pieces of terry inside). I also made her 2 flanelette/terry wipes (25x25) to match and gave her a Bummis NB cover plus some other new BB wipes I had bought. They turned out pretty well, but I forgot to take a photo unfortunately.

For me :
I had previously made 2 boosters out of my bamboo fleece plus 2 bamboo fold-ups (all 2 thick, fleece side out). These turned out with a very stretched edge and I was quite dissapointed at the time. I have since given these another hot wash and dry and they seem to be less stretched out now. This has given me more confidence sewing with stretchy material and I am nearly ready to start working with the bamboo again. I thought I might try making some prefolds next week using my new bamboo terry.

I have also been making some prefolds and wipes for bub with flanelette and terry. So far I have made prefolds, 4 Flanelette/terry and 4 flanelette (all with 2x terry soaker pads inside). The wipes have all been flanelette (2 thick) so far (6 in total), but I am going to try some more flanelette/terry soon though.