Gilbert's Mittens

Gilbert is into vexillology, which you may know is the study of flags. He requested "American flag colored mittens!" and here's what he got.



Seems pretty pleased!

just a wee reminder

Talk Like A Pirate Day is next Sunday, September 19th! Yarr!

Sean, below, showing his pirattitude in 2008 in the tricorn I knitted:

accomplishments

Today I baked bread. Here is the dough, first rise.



Here is Gloria, looking at the dough.



It pleases her!



Here is Bede, in the new "blue yarn shirt" I knit for him.



And the sweater itself.



Time to start the yearly mittens!

bitty baby bitty knitties

I made socks for Gloria's Bitty Baby, Baby Boo. Baby Boo is adored mightily by Gloria and I felt she deserved some handknits.



These are some teensy socks, folks.



I show them to Gloria.



Why, I think she likes them!



Arranging to her satisfaction.



There! Perfect.

Beatrice and the New Hat

Made this for the Trixificate.

Gilbert Gleeson, Sam Wiggle.

Gilbert's favorite Wiggle is Sam Wiggle. (He is also partial to Greg.)

So I knit him this Sam Wiggle Sweater, which is to say, a taxicab yellow sweater.



He likes it very much!



Better shot of the actual sweater, vs. the boy in the sweater.



Our eyes are the same color, me and Gil.



Look, two little sisters as well!




Sweater pattern is the raglan from The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns, which is just an awesome book to have. The yarn is America's own Peaches & Crème in Number 10, Yellow.

trixie, repelling dipes, future plans

Trixie is wearing a Jayne hat and a grey sweater, both knitted my me, and a pair of maroon sweatpants, and a swimsuit, and her Chucks. She's ready for anything!

I've had trouble with Gloria's diapers repelling because they had all gotten oily from diaper ointment. I stripped them with superhot water but it didn't help. I had to wash them all by hand, sliding each one over my hand like a flipper and rubbing them against each other with a little dishsoap. It was tedious but it worked. Moral of this story: don't use ointment with your cloth diapers without a liner.

We found a house to try to buy! I sure hope we can get it. We have no credit so we are not great mortgage candidates, but it's owner will carry and we have a nice chunk for a down payment. I'm really pushing for a fifteen year mortgage but Sean is resistant. He says if we get thirty year we can pay it off early. My problem with that is, well, we never pay more than we have to on anything, so the notion that we'll double our payments is humorous.

I think I'm going to become a midwife. I think I'd be a pretty good midwife.