Friday fun and fluff-ups

Fun:

Looking beautiful in big sister's make up

Looking beautiful whilst blowing raspberries

Fluff-ups:

Do you see that KNIT stitch right in the centre of the stocking stitch column...grrr!

OK so it's only one stitch, the photo's taken pretty close up to see it, and only I know it's there - but I KNOW it's there! Hmm, can I ignore it or do I look for a 2mm crochet hook to fix it? At least it's on a stocking stitch section so it'll be easy to do ;) Easier than threading the 140sts of the baby blanket BACK onto the circular needle. Well if you leave your knitting under a magazine, at the bottom of a project bag, at the back of the sofa, then you can't blame a little person for deciding to have a root around......just before she wanders off to do her make up....... :)

And seeing as I have a cherrypicker in my yard and a gang of men on my roof right now I guess a bad stitch and some picked up stitches are the least of things that could go wrong today.......

-x-

It's going to be a long night.....

Heather has been poorly today.  Lots of time in bed with mama, nursing, or else, as now, curled up on the sofa making little mewling sounds in her sleep. Her temperature is high, 38.5C and higher, and this mama has given paracetamol despite her aversion to the stuff. The whole family worrying about our little girl, memories of her recent stay in hospital are still far too fresh in our minds. Hopefully lots of sleep and mamas milk will do the trick and she will be bouncing fit tomorrow....

Ivy is playing the "lets pretend to sleep" game, falling fast asleep at the breast and then throwing those beautiful blue eyes wide open the moment I lay her down. Luckily she's such a sociable little thing that she is happy to be with daddy or big sisters and brothers whilst mama lies with her poorly sister.

Helen is out on a first date. Only the cinema with an unknown friend, but still, mama waits for that key in the lock. No matter how old they are, mama worries over these things.

So yes, I'm definitely in fora late, late night....
Although there is a positive  - maybe I'll get chance to look through my new book:

Here

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I paid a visit to a local yarn store a couple of days ago ;) John was totally shocked - I came out with just the book and 2 pairs of knitpro tips! Not the teensiest bit  of yarn hiding itself in my bag. He checked. Twice.

-x-

The cure for startitis

I finally found the cure for startitis. No more barely worked pieces lurking in cupboards and baskets. None stuffed under the bed, or by the side of the bathroom chair (top tip - knitting whilst the littlies are in the bath, they're happy, you're happy....), or in the glovebox of the car. No casting on items that will be too small for the wearer before you even finish. If it doesn't have a deadline then it doesn't get started.

You want to know my cure?

Although it might not work for all of you....

Well here goes......................

Are you ready.......

Although warning you, you might just dissolve into a gooey mush.......

 

A beautiful, smiley, cuddly baby!

Since Ivy came along I finally realised that you can't spend much time knitting with an elastic baby. One that doesn't like to be separated from mama unless within complete eye distance, and still with a high level of communication going on. This baby means that what little time I get to knit needs to be spent productively. Think of item, cast on item, work on item, cast of item, use item. Two or three at a time is fine, more than that - no chance of completion....ever! 

So want to cure your startitis and knit more productively? Go get yourself an elastic baby.

By the way - the playmat? Nothing to do with me. Jen's partners mothers friend (or something like that) sent one down for Jens baby and when I professed how cute it was she sent another for Ivy. How kind was that? Acrylic yarns, DK and/or eyelash type held in 4 strands, and then worked up into a giant granny square. It's one of those things, you know, you look at it and know how it's done, but you're never going to do it. Granny squares - yeah. Giant granny squares with 4 strands of yarn and a mega sized hook? No chance! It is very cute though.

Oh well, the elastic baby is fidgetting once again.

Let me know if you try out the cure ;)

-x-

The hare and the tortoise

This is the hare.......well actually it's a knitted bunny - the first little toy for our lovely little girl:

Actually she's not so small, she loves her mama milk, which explains why it took me 6 weeks to knit this one thing. So the tortoise? Well that's me and my crafting of course :) Remember when I blogged the one Helen knitted up for Heather's birthday? Well that one took her 2 days. TWO days for a relative knitting novice. I thought this would take me roughly the same when fitted round cuddles and feeds and general other stuff. I never thought I would take six WEEKS to knit a toy bunny!!

Little bunny knitted in soft and cuddly Sirdar baby crofter on 4mm needles, using just under 50g for the whole thing.

Want to see the whole shot?

Aaaawwwwww! I know you're thinking it :)

-x-

The long project

For anyone who doesn't read the other blog.......

The 9 month make is finally ready to reveal:

Ivy Marian, 18-08-2012.

Did you guess?

All that tiredness and lack of motivation?

Broken only by a teeny knit or two.

I'm sure you won't mind if I stay a non-committed blogger for a while longer, although I do have a few things to share from the past few months. 

When I can tear myself away from the newest addition I'll try a proper catch up :)

-x-