Stuff I've Been Working On
The problem with having a knitting/sewing/crafting blog when you're a full-time working mom of two kids is that it moves slower than molasses -- I so rarely get time to finish anything worth posting about!
Like these pajamas. They're the most basic of basic - made from poly fleece (the green is just regular fleece like you'd find in JoAnn's or wherever; the red is 100wt microfleece that I actually do think I got at JoAnn's a year or two ago but that my local locations at least have stopped stocking) and poly-cotton ribbing, they're not super exciting. The sets took me about 3 hours apiece start to finish, and had to be made urgently this weekend since Mr. Wee (the taller of the two) has a "Valentine's Day Pajama Party" to go to at preschool this coming week.
You can tell my son is in a class of mostly girls when he comes home squeeing about a pajama party and insisting he MUST have a new set of pajamas for this exciting event. :)
The next thing I've been working on has been this Domokun sweater that is taking me for-ev-er to knit. I have learned that intarsia and I don't get along (well, truly I have learned that it is more effort than I am willing to put into it and therefore that my intarsia comes out looking sloppy.) This is the second time I've used this chart (which I cribbed from Brennx0r's Domokun DS Case pattern) and the second time I've had tension issues and holes. Honestly, colorwork is not my thing to begin with (I'm a big fan of solid color items and using texture for interest rather than color,) so I'm about ready to abandon it. Not the sweater but rather the technique -- Mr. Wee would be super disappointed if I abandoned the sweater, since he's been looking forward to it for some time now. :)
That's all the news that's fit to print right now, I suppose. Hoping to have the sweater done within the next week or so, as I've promised Little R his own top-down raglan (for which he has chosen a particularly retina-searing colorway of Lion Brand Landscapes yarn along with some sort-of-matching Fun Fur... never let the 3-year-old choose yarn is the moral of this story) and then I have other projects planned as well.
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I think the idea is adorable. He's in a class of all girls, one other boy (who is "all boy" and not very compatible with the girls, who don't like being hit/bashed/etc.) and him, and the girls have all been surreptitiously passing him valentines for the past week or so. It starts much earlier than I remember!!
I'd've loved a pajama party at university, but we were very serious and intent on being serious and drinking too much coffee for all that. ;)