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FO by Sally: Blue Lagoon Longies

You may remember this yarn that I dyed ages and ages ago

Well it sat around in my cupboard for a year or so, waiting to be made into longies for Sally’s bubba before he arrived.  Well, Jas arrived and still the yarn sat there, so in the end I gave it to Sally to whip up the longies – I figure that now that she is a SAHM she has a bit more time on her hands than I do! (Lucky for her, Jas is an easy baby and an excellent sleeper.)  So she dutifully whipped up the longies in next to no time, and they look rad!

I LOVE how this yarn knitted up, but I think they need a wee embelishment – maybe an orca?  I think they took a smidgeon over 100g so she should have lots left over.  Doesn’t Jasper look cute in them?

FO: Magic mitts

I had heaps of the hand-dyed yarn left over after making the Meret beret, so I made E some matching fingerless gloves  

I used the Small Fry Fingerless Gloves pattern (thats a Ravelry link) and modified them slightly by using 3.5mm needles instead of 4mm needles, skipped a couple of rows after the thumb (because I didn’t want them too long on her fingers) and did only 3 rows of stocking stitch on the thumbs.  I’m so pleased with the end result, they fit perfectly and look cute matched with her beret.

3 month old bouncing boy

 

And cos he’s cute:

 

Showing off his cowprint Happy Heiny and Hugalugs  (this child has something like 60 MCNs that fit him, talk about a huge wardrobe!):

FO: Magic Meret

 

I used my Magic Yarn Ball swap yarn at last!  It seemed appropriate to make a Meret, which I believed is shortened from “Mystery Beret”, and as the goodies inside the MYB were a mystery I thought it fit nicely.  Except that I cheated and rewound the MYB and got the goodies out before I started knitting *blush*.

The pattern is for 10ply and my yarn is 8ply, so I figured it would downsize nicely for E on 4mm needles.  I cast on for the largest size and didn’t do any repeats.  When I finished it looked TINY and I thought it would only fit a baby, I figured I’d have to just put it away in my gift stash until I found a baby girl to give it to.  So I soaked it in water for a while and then blocked the snot out of it on a dinner plate.  And it worked!  The lace opened out nicely, and it turned into a nice big slouchy beret for E (it even fits me!)

I absolutely love the yarn, the colour variations are quite subtle but look really neat and don’t overwhelm the lace.  The top pic is the most true to colour.  I’ll have to take a pic of all the goodies that were inside the MYB!

Birthday Girl

E turned 3 recently, so we celebrated yesterday with a party. 

Nana C gave E  the brightest parrot costume you have ever seen (while  I muttered about having just vaccuumed the floor…)

Aunty Sally made E some purple cupcakes just for her (and delicious carrot ones for everyone else)

And Nana C made a ducky cake, which unfortunately melted a bit during the car ride…

On her actual birthday, we took E to Auckland Zoo for a special treat.  Feeding the giraffe was a highlight

Wool is cool

Its been cold this week, very cold by Auckland standards.  But Jasper has been snuggly warm in his woolies:

Update on Ash

My other nephew Ash, who is now 8 months old, had major heart surgery on Tuesday this week, and is recovering well at Starship Hospital   We expect he will be there for another couple of weeks.

Here he is in hospital the night before his big op:

Jas the Chatterbox

10 week old Jasper is apparently a total chatterbox.  Here he is chatting to his dad:

Disbelief

Thats how I felt when this happened on Saturday:

My poor car!  Thankfully E and I are fine    We came around a corner to find the rural postie’s ute on our side of the road, she was zigzagging across the road and cutting the corner *frowns*.  The front right of the ute took out my car, there was no room for me to pull over or stop in time.

I’d never been in a car crash before, its scary to realise that there is nothing I could have done to prevent it.  We are just lucky both vehicles were driving slowly (I drive like a nana at the best of times, and this was a pot-holey gravel road).