Orange Secret Garden Skirty

Finished this skirty first thing Saturday morning (stayed up late the night before to try to get it done but I couldn't focus on the stitches after a while!). I'm soo pleased with it and it's the first skirty I've really enjoyed knitting. The customer is a lovely WAHM who I did collaborations with for BBM and instead of paying for this skirty, she's swapping me some of her handpainted tops for my littlens.

Anyways, on to the photos :-)







Cute huh? :-) Almost makes me wish my daughter was still in nappies...maybe I'll have to have another girl in a couple of years time lol

Blue Banana Shorties

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Finished these lovely shorties last night. Not the best photo in the world, the colours are nicer in real life and this photo was taken with flash rather than natural light. I love the subtle striping though

I made some scrappies!

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I'm rather pleased with them :-) The waistband is three different colourways of yarn twisted together and I think it looks really effective. Was a good way of using up yarn scraps and in creating something quirky and unique.

I sold these crops when I'd only started the first leg so was able to customise the legs to be more girly. The customer also wanted them to be mismatched which I like too.

Had a bit of a dilema deciding where and how to join the new yarns. Normally I do a felted join but felt this would look too messy. I ended up using the jogless stripes technique here: http://techknitting.blogspot.com/2007/01/jogless-stripes.html

and I started each new yarn at the front of the work, reasoning that this would be the area under the least amount of strain as the child moves. I hid the leg joins down the inseam.


I'm still working on the skirty. Unfortunately the baby has been having a growth spurt so he's been nursing all the time. Fingers crossed that it's finished for now and the cooler weather expected at the weekend will mean he's not as thirsty.

He's certainly getting bigger though!

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!