Mikknit

I’ve been sitting on these pictures for a few days - I had to get new batteries for the camera so I could free the pictures, then I had to find the cable, upload them to my site, blah blah blah. So here they are -

This is Grace’s Robin Hood Jacket, photographed almost two weeks ago. I still haven’t found the buttons and haven’t had the chance to go get more, so there it sits. I’m going to call the shop now, actually, and see if they have more of the same buttons. Okay, they’re looking. Cross your fingers! Hooray, they had more!

This is the best picture I could get of Arlo in the black soaker. Black item + nonstop baby = bad pictures. Sorry. Grace was trying to hold him still. Obviously, it wasn’t working well.

This is the same soaker pattern in a different yarn. When I took this, I still had about 20 rows of ribbing to do, then to graft the ribbing to the live stitches on the front. Then it needs single crochet around the leg holes and knit gussets. About 1/2 hour of work after the knitting is done. It is currently waiting to be grafted. Maybe I’ll get to do that tonight, after the kids are in bed. Trying to graft (or knit anything, lately) with the kids around, even one of the kids, is a recipe for chaos. No fun.

I’ve finally found charcoal sock yarn for the heels and toes of Chris’s socks! I knit one heel last night, a short row heel, and then knit another 1″ or so on the foot of the sock before giving it to him to try on. Of course, the short row heel is too tight across his instep, so I had to pull it out and am now starting a flap heel. I *hate* flap heels! But if it fits his foot, it’s all good. Someday, these socks will be done!

Time to get off the computer now. Hopefully I can get lots of knitting done this weekend!