"Flamingo" Soakers & Misc.

Whew it's sure been busy here! Seems that summer is always busy! We sure are enjoying the warmer days though!

Recent knits:
Two soakers - one is for Tish's listtle one with a matching headband and another for a very special little girl. "Flamingo" dyed by Tykie Knits on corriedale.

W16; H18; R16;T9
3oz 5spi




A dear friend got to visit recently! It was such a wonderful time to get to visit again. It's always so nice to laugh until your sides hurt and tears run down your cheeks. She wanted to learn to sew so that she could make herself some cloth menstrual pads (aka mamacloth). While teaching her I sewed up a few pads for her to take home with her (forgive the wonky pics - I forgot to take pics before I sent them home with her so these had been crammed in her suitcase).

3 daytime cloth pads


3 overnight/heavy flow pads


she wants to try various shapes/sizes so I drew out approx 13-16 different shapes/sizes. A few are freebie patterns on the net but others are after a sposie pad or freehand after seeing something similar or completely freehand tweaking to what she described she wanted.

Scrappy Diamond Cabled Shorties

Knit using various Cestari Superfine Merino scraps. First time knitting this particular cable. I think it shows up better than some of the smaller cables.



H20.5; R17; I3.5; T12
3 7/8 oz

Western Sky Knits "Chocolate Rainbow" & "Crimson" Striped Longies

Longies for baby S knit from Western Sky Knits "Chocolate Rainbow" colorway on Cestari Superfine yarn with stripes of Cestari Superfine in the "Crimson" colorway.

Avery in his scrappy shorts

Stephanie was kind enough to share with me (and allow me to post) pictures of her precious son, Avery, in his scrappy shorts.





Thank you Stephanie for allowing me to knit for your handsome little fella!

Custom Capris & Soaker for new babe

Custom Capris for Ashley of Crunchy Clean. Cestari Superfine Merino dyed by me - knit with a double braid.





Soaker for the new babe coming! Need to either paint a little tshirt to go with this or sew a little top - thinking I'd rather paint a T-shirt but not sure what to paint on it - not the right color for blue birds really. Any suggestions?



The soaker was knit from leftover Araucania Nature Wool Bulky Solid and Multy that I used to knit this hat 2 winter seasons ago for one of our other children. (crummy pic washed out by flash - really should take a new one)


The soaker was a great way to use up the leftovers of the multy color (color # 210) as I only had approx 1.5oz of that along with a little over 1.5oz of the Teal trim color (#120 Turquoise).

Charity Auction YYMN Slot & Yarns I dyed this week

the shorties are for the mama who won the charity YYMN auction for a cloth diapering mom of 8 children who is on a forum I'm on who lost her husband suddenly approx 2 months ago.





yarns I dyed this week - I had a pair of shorties for a trade nearly finished and they got left in the vehicle window for about 2 days worth of TX sunshine and got slightly bleached so I redid it (now the yarn on the bottom) and started dyeing another skein when the colors wanted to mesh together so I overdyed that to make the middle purple/black/etc one you see and then did another green/pink one (the yarn on top) to do a set for one of my own dd's at some point.



I don't know what to call the purple/black/etc.... (see below) - any suggestions?

Recent Finished Items

Finished up one tester pattern for a wahm but no pics to post as she is going to submit it to Knitty! I'm hoping the pattern makes it in! Very excited for her!

Recent Custom - the one I posted about the other day - This momma is so super sweet! This yarn on the other hand - was not so nice! However, it did finally cooperate! But it did not stretch as far as she would have liked. She had hoped for a 6" inseam and I could only get a 4" inseam. Absolutely love this colorway but the WAHM dyer is now out of biz.



I literally used almost every last inch of this yarn - here is what was leftover - less than a yard of the main colorway (6" ruler in the picture for reference)


This is the "True Love Cowl" tester pattern for Melanie of Adorabubble Knits. Knit with Bernat Satin yarn - this yarn is gray but has hints of brown in it when it hits the light just right.


Sugarbubbie Halter Tester Pattern knit from Lily Sugar'n'Cream cotton yarn. This one is for my baby cousin.