Morrie's Milo

I've had this pattern in my queue on Ravelry for a while now. I think I bought it and printed it off before I got pregnant with Ava. I even bought some beautiful green yarn from Babylonglegs to knit one with.

Well, I finally got round to it and I'm so pleased with how it turned out:



Morrie refers to it as his "Crocodile top" because the yarn colourway was named "Hungry Crocodile" and he says the cabling looks like a crocodile's tail >.<

I'm looking forward to knitting this pattern again, it's well written and knits up quickly. Morrie has asked for a red one and he has told me I need to make a blue one for his brother. Such demanding children I have... I'll have to convince my OH to let me go yarn shopping!

Bayside Britches

I knitted these dungarees while I was pregnant, these are the 6-9 month size and are a good fit on my average sized 3 month old but with plenty of room to grow as well. The yarn was a custom dye on merino by For The Love of Fibre. I asked for Peacock colours and this is what she came up with :-)



I'm currently knitting an In Threes cardigan for my big girl and then I'll knit a matching one for my little girl. Going to get buttons for them tomorrow, I'm using a purple/pink/black colourway from 100purewool called "Poison" so I'm going to see if I can get some shiny silver buttons to stand out against the yarn. Or at least that's what my plan is, I may come back with something completely different!

This is my second time knitting the In Threes pattern. I don't think I loaded the photo onto flickr so can't link to it but here's a copy on my projects page on Ravelry :-)

Busy!

Eek, been nearly 2 months since I last updated this blog. And they have certainly been a busy few weeks!

We've had a birthday, M was 4



We had a strawberry cake :-)



And a picnic or two





We went on a steam train



I painted my nails a few times >.<





Ava has grown a bit bigger!



We went for walks in the sunshine with some friends



Did a little bit of gardening (ok, we pulled up the weeds and filled some pots with flowers!)



Went for some more walks



But still found some time to snuggle :-)




Oh and I finished a rainbow skirty :-)









I've just finished a pair of longies which have yet to be photographed and then I'm either going to make something for Ava or some scrappies for a customer. I want to make some booties for a friend's upcoming baby at some point too, but she isn't due until October so I've got a little time left!

It's fun being busy :-)

Buy British Month

So, life with 4 kids is pretty busy! However I have managed to get a bit of knitting done! Ava has some girly woollies now and I also managed to get some things knitted up for Buy British Month on Cloth Nappy Addicts

These rainbow crops have already sold



As have these girly ones



The following are still available at the time of posting, check out my Soaring Sheep thread on the BBM board :-)





I liked this bright colourway so much I made a smaller pair for Ava :-)



Finally here is my increasingly squishy little girl modelling her Mummy-made longies and rainbow top by Picklepaints

We got a girl!

Ava Rose was born on 28th March, at home as planned, after an intense 2 hour labour :-) She weighed 8 lb 1oz and was born at 41+2 weeks, over 2 weeks earlier than Eli was!

She's now nearly 3 weeks old, over a lb heavier and starting to get little fat rolls, adorable (I am biased though!)



My other three children adore her, especially Eli, he loves to give her cuddles and if she cries he immediately comes over and starts stroking her hair and her tummy to calm her down