Soaker Insanity

I bought some beautiful yarn from Snarky Designs. Omgosh that's MY yarn on the front!! Totally! Way cool. So I decided to make Lucy a wool soaker to go over her cloth diapers. I found a free pattern and it said it was a size large. Lucy's a big girl. She's 6 months old and wears med/large-large cloth diapers aka size 4 huggies. So I'm knitting it. It's looking big but I'm a novice to knitting and this is my first soaker so I figure it'll be ok. NOT! It's done flat and you seam up the sides. I'm actually SEAMING THE SIDES when I decide to frog it (rip it) and do it again. The rise (length from back edge to top edge) came out to 26 inches!! Lucy's is only ohh half that?? Ok looked it up she's 17 inches in rise. Yes I even did a swatch to check my stitches.

So I'm going to do curly purly's basic plain wrap. Wish me luck!

A whole new language

I am learning so many new words on Ravelry. Well, of course, I'm learning all kinds of knitting terms such as frogging (ripping out knitted work), tinking (knitting backwards), k2tog, etc. Then there is snarky (kinda like sarcastic-bitchy). Then there is this site of "internet kitties". They spell the "teh" and put a "z" for the letter s and other annoying bad internet grammer.

I've been reading and posting in a group with a meaningless-to-all-members-but-the creators-name. It has something to do with parenting and someone annoying. I have no idea who. Yeah we get childish.

Its a nice change to "talk" to other parents who parent differently than me and even NONparents. We're doing a mystery swap. I don't know why I joined lol. I have a hard time shopping for people I know well let alone someone I don't know at all. Then to boot my paypal is messed up and will only let me pay by echeck or my credit card and I don't use my credit card and echeck takes a few days. Finally got that straightened out but it will still take a couple of days before I can instant pay through my checking acct. I hope I get it all here on time to mail out as one package to my swappee.

Got to cut this short. Kid's doctor appt at 2:30.

Seriously?

I so want this yarn! Seriously! But unfortunately it's sold out. :(

I have been working on the same pair of socks since the beginning of February. They are green and violet. Knitpicks yarn. Using Silver's pattern. I am doing it magic loop.


The first one the toes are way too tight. I guess I knit extremely tight. It took me nigh on forever to knit the first one. I had to frog the heel several times because I just couldn't get it right. So then I got it right and the sock was too short! ARGH. So I had to frog it AGAIN and make the foot length longer. The second sock I cast on more and am consciously knitting looser. I'm knitting away when I realize I forgot to do the stripe. Sigh. I was 10 rows past it. So now I'm tinking. Tinking is Knitting backwards.

I am never going to have a matching pair of socks!!

I wanted to knit me a curtain for my kitchen window but I just do terrible at patterns. I am distracted too much by my children. So I am now crocheting a curtain. Much easier for me.

NOT Updated List of diaper FSOT

If interested please drop me an email as this is not updated with sold/traded diapers. Been busy. :)
I am mainly looking for paypal, girly fitteds or medium BSWWs. Maybe consider circular needles. I don't like susan bates or boye. So far I love hiya hiyas and addi's. I do not discount for anything except for maybe if you buy in bulk. Diapers are listed at the prices I paid for them a mere 3 months ago. I research what diapers are currently selling for, also, when I'm listing them. I am confident my prices are fair. I ran an online cloth diaper resale site for about 5 years and owned/operated ButterflyKissesDiapers.com for a year.

Listing soon!! bsww and prowrap covers.

Kissaluv size 0 lavender sold. GUC Maybe very very light staining. I don't see any though.


1 lime (sold), 1 natural Kissaluv size 0 GUC $7 ppd each, all have very faint discoloration

lime and peach inner (one lime not shown)

natural outer and inner


$7 fitted peewells small




PENDING-used small swaddlebees pockets
Originally uploaded by MamaNak
PENDING $7 ea shipped
2 yellows
1 mint green
1 white
no inserts
funded paypal

Sm mums bums fitted has sm wear holes $6 ppd

inner mums bums

Nb fitteds used
Originally uploaded by MamaNak swaddlebees-gone
striped whippersnappers pocket (needs insert) fitted $7 ppd
country cozy's flannel fitted faded but still totally useable$6 ppd
funded paypal

here a knit there a knit...

All kinds of knitting fun! My hubby went by Marie's, The Fiber Station and bought me a pair of hiya hiya's size 1 40 inch. UGH my first time to that site. I didn't know they were made in china. UGH UGH UGH. Gee guess I'll have to buy another pair of addi's.

Speaking of addi's. A very nice woman I met through Ravelry GAVE me a pair of addi turbos!! Size 2. I'm SOO excited. Thank you MrsH!

Then my husband went back to The Fiber Station and bought me some gorgeous handspun superwash bamboo/merino yarn. Marie dyed it herself.




And my mama gave me a bunch of sock yarn. Of course, since she usually just knits barbie items there isn't enough of each color for a pair of socks so I will have to do some funky striping. I can't wait.

Let's see there is Paton's Kroy Socks, 2 skeins of coal and 2 skeins of mallard. Then a skein of grass and a skein of purple from KnitPicks. Then 4 skeins in pink, white, slate blue and blue ofLang Yarns.

Stash of crap yarn. I use my crap yarn for washcloths, hot pads and amigurumi.

It's actually much larger but that's what I'm currently working with or plan on soon. I don't have start-n-abandon-itis. I just have plan-to-itis.

I finished Livie's kindergarden teacher's Valentine washcloth.


Click the picutre for the pattern. There are hearts on the cloth but you can't see it in my picture.

Get your badge!

I saw this on radioactivegirl's blog and I had to have one. Of course, there isn't a children's cancer badge so I'll have to request one.



Here's one for cancer survivors and their caregivers. We fall under that category. :)

Oh to keep this yarn related I met radioactivegirl on Ravelry.

Amigurumi poop

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Originally uploaded by MamaNak

The pattern is here.

Amigurumi Dragonfly

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Originally uploaded by MamaNak

Pattern by Kristie

aristocrats

aristocrats
Originally uploaded by MamaNak

I have no idea what size these were originally but after a few failed attempts at proper washing they are now newborn/small size. :) I love these for nighttime!
$10 ppd

Liv's hungry hippo

Liv's hungry hippo
Originally uploaded by MamaNak

I feel so special. Someone...two someone's favorited my hippos on Ravelry. :) Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Livie loves her hippo. It was the first one I made and didn't really like the final results but she does and that's all that counts. Levi's came out better but I think that's because I used nicer yarn for it.