Wooly mail

I don't normally buy woolies knitted up but thought - hell why not.

I got these from Leslie at Little Blue Frog Works http://www.littlebluefrogworks.com

The yarn came from Little Turtle Knits in NYC colourway - its grey blues and natural. I am pretty sure its Targee - but really don't care. I got them made extra long in the leg for my Mr Daddylonglegs and with pockets too.

He is wearing a handdyed spencer I did before the longies arrived, but as you can see it matches perfectly. Just need to remember not to put handdyed spencers in the wash for their first wash - Henry's singlets now have grey necklines on the elasticy bit that is obviously nylon and a lovely varigated baby jacket my nan made in acrylic crap is now actually a lovely grey shade (personally I think it improves it!!)

Please 'scuse my floor - my house seriously looks like a tip right now - I would soooo love a day at home with even JUST the kids - we seem to have tradesmen coming out of our ears lately.

Oh piccies of house tomorrow - camera has been found.

my knitting history

In light of Rach's http://www.stitchsista.blogspot.com/ knitting history entry, and the fact I am home alone with both my babies at daycare for the very first time (Bodhi's first day ready for me to go back to work), I thought I would do a similar entry.

My nanny, my beloved nanny, taught me to knit at 2 years old - you might think a bit strange, but I was always a crafty child, and she still has my very first scarf I made. It's this horrible crappy acrylic stuff - yicky!!!

Over my preteen years, I would often knit "things" and when I was 9 I made my sister a jumper (she was 4). It was suprisingly simple but good - it's still at my dads. And so continued my simple knitting phase.

In my mid teens a lovely lady I knew - Hi Miss Bev - introduced me to better quality yarn. It was Bendigo stuff, but nice compared to knitting Carnival and Magnum. She was an avid knitter of anything she could get her hands on that didn't look nanna-ish. She bought me a Aran jumper pattern kit and off I went. I loved loved loved loved it. I still have it - can't wear it cause my boobs are way too big for it these days. And from there I entered the world of cables, entrelac and a few other things.

I never made anything majorly interesting. Till...................

I found cloth nappies and this idea of wool soakers. Well that started it as well as internet patterns and yarn stores. With help of my nanny and her old pattern drafting books and a few other researched techniques courtesy of the internout, I drafted up my own shorties/longies pattern. Since then I have made my own soaker pattern to.

I love dyeing the yarn that I use, but still covert other people's dyeing efforts. I must give a MAJOR big thank you to the other "Bags" cause without you, I wouldn't be using the lovely sourced yarns that we have. I would also like to thank you all for the inspiration to keep knitting and changing and expanding my brain and it's wacky ideas.

So there you go - in a nut shell. So much achieved, yet sooo many more things to try and master