Secret Garden Collab

This is another collaboration with Claire of Jellynose Chic. The yarn is Secret Garden from WWBN. The set is listed in my shop

What have I been up to

Aegian shorties using a Babylonglegs colourway



Orange Secret Garden skirty, another Babylonglegs custom dye. The customer wanted some orange in the colourway



Finally Scrappy Shorties for Buy British Month - assuming I get a chance to finish them before the end of May!

Yaarn dyeing

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My partner worked from home this afternoon and needed to use the laptop. I could have spent my time knitting, or doing housework, or sleeping but instead I had a play with some Koolaid. 200g of bfl aran dyed in blue, orange and green. Looking forward to seeing it reskeined and then knitted up :-)

I do have green and orange hands now though!

Booties finished!

I think he likes them :-)







Made using the left over yarn from these shorties which I've also finished:



Just need to lanolise and knit the i-cord. Really chuffed with these. The blue yarn was sent by the customer and although the blue doesn't match the blue in the yarn they still look really good together, at least in my opinion! These are being sent on to someone else as part of a "nappy fairy" swap on a forum. Basically like a secret santa but involving nappies :-p

Progress (sort of)

1 Pair of shorties done:



(Bluebell colourway from Babylonglegs)

Second pair of shorties just need second leg cuff and ends weaving in. Oh and a drawcord.

Third pair of shorties I've got as far as the waistband and a few rows into the body.


I felt a bit fed up of shorties so decided to make some booties for Eli to give me a quick break. Well that was the theory. Cast on 3-6 months, too small. Cast on 6-12 months, sewed up and started second bootie. Realised first bootie was wrong, I'd managed to miss out 4 rows of stockinette stitch. Humph.

I AM going to finish these booties! Even if I am sick of them already. We're going to a wedding so thought he could wear them as part of his wedding outfit. 10 days to go, surely my children and brain will let me concentrate for the hour it takes to do them?

Seriously, one bootie in just an hour. Sounds great doesn't it. Except it's taken me all day to knit one :-(