Recent Knitting

I've been offline for a bit - Here are the latest knits.

Longies and a toy turtle for a friend's little girl - these are knit out of Hobby Lobby's Hush-a-bye 50% cotton / 50% acrylic yarn. She uses pockets and a couple of her kids are allergic to wool so she asked for some other yarn to be used. This is a gift for her little one's first birthday.




TIG "Teague" shorties for our new little one


A smocked sun dress for our new little one - I used the stitch pattern from the Mae Day dress on the top - it's just a standard smocked knitting stitch - but added stitches under the arms, knitted it in the round and did not do increases as the pattern called for and did a lace edging. I made this slightly big and long so that it will be a long dress now but also will fit probably when she is a year old as a little top.

Mosaic Moon & Ky Baby Knits

Ky Baby Knits "Papillon" colorway on Cestari Super Fine Merino

H21; R18; I11; T12
8 1/8oz

Mosaic Moon "Blooming" on 100% Merino Rambouillet
originally intended this yarn for a personal project but did not like how much gren it had.

H15-16
R14-15
I 6 1/2-7
T 8-9
3 5/8oz

Mosaic Moon "Turning Leaves" shorties

Mosaic Moon "Turning Leaves" Shorties on Montana Targhee

it looks like one leg is bigger than the other but it's not. Guess I was leaning over my big ol' preggo belly and trying not to cast a shadow on the knitting LOL and the late afternoon sun didn't help with casting shadows LOL.


H20;R17;I4;T12

Last weeks projects

MM Birthday Girl







Rainbow soaker - not sure what yarn this was - it had little black and white flecks throughout it that I picked out as I knit and oy was it a pain! But it turned out cute - and I have this onesie to crop and lettuce edge (I just folded it under for the pic)


Look how tiny - if you set the CD on top of the soaker there is less than an inch on each side. It's so easy to forget just how tiny babies are at first!


This is a set for a friend who is due any day now with a little boy. For some reason this did not want to photograph well at all. The shirt really matches it very nicely but the shirt wanted to photograph lighter than it is IRL and the shorts wanted to photograph darker (kinda a brighter green) than they are IRL. It was rainy here so I opened the front door to let some light in to try to get a decent pic but it didnt' work so well :( They really do match nicely in person. Maybe tomorrow I can get a better pic before I mail this off to her.

Weekend Projects

This weekends projects:
Finished 1/2 of a custom.
cleaned out high boy dresser!

Knit this little top - isn't it sweet! Saw the pattern in a LYS last week. I really tweaked this to where I can't say I followed the pattern at all but I certainly enjoyed this knit and it produced such a cute little top! It is made to be a dress and much fuller than I created.

I literally barely eeked this little top out of leftover yarn from the pixie dust longies that I knit. I had to dig out approx a 24 inch scrap I had used (I think as a lifeline) and wet felt it to the end of my yarn in order to finish binding off and weave in the end! This is supposed to have 4 i-cords for ties at the shoulder but I will be adding ribbon for ties since I ran out of yarn. LOL
There is also a row of eyelets just below the smocked top for a ribbon to go through.





Also sewed up 13 mamacloth pads for a gift and for myself.

Gift Set:
This is a gift set to a special mama in Canada. Each has various soaker fabrics so she can try out various materials and also vairous shapes/sizes to see what she likes most.

from left to right:
left: 14 inch, 2 birdseye, 2 zorb, 2 flannel, hidden PUL, blue flannel back
left middle: 13inch, flannel, zorb, flannel, 2 birdseye, terry soaker, hidden PUL, coffee addict flannel back
right middle: 13 inch, 1 layer terry, 2 zorb, 1 terry for soaker, green flannel back
right: 9.75 inch, terry, zorb, flannel for soaker, flower/paisley flannel back

My Set:
ranges in size from 9.5 inches to 13 inches. All have zorb sandwiched between other materials (flannel, birdseye, terry, etc) for soaker layers and most have fleece backing.

Mosaic Moon Pixie Dust Longies & Ramblings

Tricia - thank you for the fleece soaker! It was so very kind of you! This is Tricia's son, Nico. He is 3 mo old and already 17lbs! Tricia thank you for sharing this photo! and truly thank you very much for the fleece soaker!


This pair of longies were so hard to photograph. Parts of the purple wanted to turn out blue in the photo. It was overcast here today and - well these longies just did not want to be photographed LOL. This is a stunning color in person and none of these photographs do this colorway any real justice. You can see more accurate pics of the colorway at the mosaic moon gallery

I ended up having to take a picture inside with a flash and it seems that always washes out the cable and makes it far less noticeable than it is in real life.

Mosaic Moon "Pixie Dust" on 3 ply uruguay merino wool
H16;R16;I7;T8 5spi 3 5/8oz
Plymouth Galway color #89 trim







see you really can see the cable LOL


A picture of Pixie Dust from the Mosaic Moon website


I had picked up a pattern earlier in the week at the LYS to make a sweater top/dress for S. I modified it to be knit in the round rather than flat and also made it shorter to make a top instead of a dress and did fewer YO's so that it was not as full because I knew I would not have enough yarn to do as many increases as they did and I knew I wanted a top and not a dress. I used the Plymouth Galway worsted yarn scrap (2 3/8oz) leftover from the MM Pixie Dust longies. very quick knit! I used every last little bit of wool I had! Even had to wet felt a scrap that was approx 2 feet long onto the very end of the main scrap in order to finish binding off and be able to weave in the end! Didn't even have enough to make the 4 ties on it so I'll be getting some cute ribbon to use for ties. No pics yet since I have not gotten to block it! Did pick up some yarn to knit some little shorts to go with the top today while in town though.

What a sweetie!

I never tire of seeing adorable baby photos! Hayden is simply precious! Those little round baby cheeks! How much sweeter could one be?
Thank you Tish for sharing your photos!



Awww - think she was tired of photos?