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leftovers baby jacket and beanie

27/01/2024 1:22 pm \ 4 Comments \ Carolyn

Hello! Long time no see! Well, actually it hasn’t been that long, but you know… I’ve been making lots, but not really much that’s blog-able. Lots of trials and tests of our new pattern, which should be coming up pretty soon, so please look forward to it!

I also had a bit of a horrible health issue in there as well, which hopefully has been cleared up now. Nothing to really worry about.

But in the meantime I knitted this new cute little set for my littlest grandson Gilbert! When he’s a bit older I can hopefully take a picture of him actually wearing it, but right now it’s over 30C so maybe not just yet!

So, in my end of year post, I mentioned I had a huge stash of wool that I was planning to pass onto a day care centre or something. Well, while looking more closely at it I actually found an old needle in one of the balls of wool. HORROR! I immediately felt immense pre-guilt that I could have inadvertently exposed someone’s child to a potential injury… just imagine! Anyway, the upshot was that I decided to make more of an effort to use a bit more of the wool myself. I have tentative plans to produce a new thing every month but I admit that that is a lot, so I’ll just see how I go!

I used the same pattern I used for the previous knitted set for him from last October, the Naturally Yarns pamphlet K679. That first one was for size 6-9 months, and this new one is for size 12 months. It’s all leftover wool, and even the buttons are from my stash too. The buttons don’t even match each other, but that’s ok! you can hardly tell without looking closely. It was fun to choose wools and colours again, and to blend them all in in a way that would look intentional, and like a proper design. I wonder if I could get away with making a few more sets?!

Posted in: knitting \ Tagged: baby clothes, babywear, Gilbert, naturally yarns K679

pumpkin spice… plus some lovely sea-foamy green things

28/10/2023 5:19 pm \ 5 Comments \ Carolyn

Hello! I’ve finished making a few new things, both from deep deep stash. I can’t stress enough how happy it makes me feel to be methodically using up ye olde stash! I feel so virtuous. Particularly since such a lot of it was not even bought by me in the first place, but foisted upon me – and I must say here that I truly do appreciate everything that has been given to me, many many pieces have proved to be very lovely and beautiful quality, and very useful too when it comes to testing patterns and new designs! It is also true though that I am at a stage in my life when I want to whittle it down, for good. I have dreams of a more minimalist future, and I’m determined to see it through.

Firstly; a new dress for me, using a pattern that has become a favourite; the Deer and Doe Myosotis dress pattern. Such a pretty and feminine design; I think I might have to always have one hanging in my wardrobe. My blue and white gingham Myosotis is currently being worn by Cassie as a maternity dress, and quite successfully too! quite telling as to how comfortable it is.

The fabric is a quite nice, soft-pumpkin silk crepe, very lightweight and floaty, almost translucent. I’m definitely going to be wearing this with a slip, I think.

I honestly cannot remember where I bought this fabric, or even if I did buy it; and if not, who gave it to me? Honestly a complete mystery! Which makes me think it was most likely part of a stash that I inherited at some point. No matter! I do really like it and I think the colour suits me very well.

Item 2! a little knitted jacket and beanie set for Cassie’s new baby… the last time I went down to stay with my parents I bought this little pattern pamphlet from a yarn and quilting shop in Bridgetown; Naturally Yarns K679. I wanted to get something for the baby, and also to support a local business, but honestly felt very conflicted about buying a finished something when I SHOULD be using up my own supplies…. anyway I did achieve kind of both.

This set is the 6-9 month size. All yarns are from the very large yarn stash that I’ve inherited over time – and no; I am NOT accepting new submissions! I really think I could have a lifetime of knitting ahead of me, no purchase necessary… It was pretty fun though, to try to make the scraps that I had into some sort of design idea, and I’m very pleased with the outcome! I literally used up the entirety of ALL these yarns, with the exception of a small amount of the lime green yarn used for the beanie and collar. It’s the most thrilling thing to successfully use up yarn, and use it up even semi-aesthetically. I know, right?!! SO proud!!

Finally, item 3; and this is sadly not from my own stash, but from Cassie’s. I volunteered to make up one of the fabrics she had bought for her summer/autumn breast-feeding friendly wardrobe. What else to make but one of our own Yallingup designs?! We both believe in this design so thoroughly and it’s a little sad that it has not been as popular as we were hoping. I wonder if it’s not clear that the regular, and the breast-feeding friendly version are actually separate designs, even though they look the same from the outside?

Anyway, we both love it! and Cassie has made up quite a few more of the breast-feeding friendly versions herself for her time with this new baby. And this is one that I made for her.

The fabric is a Nano Iro Air Time design in colour way B.. it’s so beautiful it would make literally anything look absolutely amazing. Hey, I still believe that our Yallingup is independently beautiful too though! I could not fit the pattern pieces onto the small piece of fabric in the traditional way, so the front and back are top to toe, and the wrap piece is cut on the cross, with the tail ends of the tie cut and pieced from the scraps.

I had to cut the facing from a separate piece of plain white cotton, through lack of fabric. She’s modelling it here, 8+ months pregnant, sure it’s a little short but it’s not too bad for a non-maternity design! It’s going to be even better once she’s out of the pregnant stage, and into the breast-feeding stage which is what it’s designed for.