Unpoopworthy felting and lost knitting frustrations

I finished my first diaper cover. A few years back, I bought a bunch of wool thrift store sweaters and felted them in order to sew fabulous bags and other wonderful sundries. I made one purse and since then the felt has sat in my basement making me feel bad.


Warning: gratuitous baby pudge ahead



I cut out a form based on a prowrap diaper wrap, and made closures with buttons and velcro. They looked cute. YEAH! My sewing here pretty much made a mockery of the dignified art of sewing, but I didn't care, they were CUTE.

40 minutes later, 4 of the 5 family members were covered in sticky green baby poop. Shuuuute. The cute diaper cover is not poopworthy.

I'm rethinking my policy of feeling bad about not using my felted sweaters. Maybe it would be better to stick with a hobby that doesn't necessitate multiple needle threadings, glopped up wads of thread, disappearing velcros, and pins in my finger tips only to end in disaster.

Jaala is much more talented when it comes to the sewing so I'll leave it to her from now on.


Also, progress on the purple merino soakers ground to a halt when I lost the knitting and the pretty purple lantern moon bag that I am keeping them in (Got it for 4 bucks from the knit picks clearance - YEAH!) for the past 4 days. I think I need to get some of my projects done so I can focus without losing my literal and figurative stuff. Happily, I found the bag tonight. I guess that's progress.



On a happier note, I finally finished S's vest.


We went to Gayfeather together to pick out the buttons yesterday. She did a good job and is excited to wear it to school tomorrow.

It is such a great feeling when they like what you knit for them.

I knit the vest from the Afghan's for Afghans child's vest pattern in "Knitting for Peace" using Noro Silk Garden leftover skeins from my sweater I made last summer. The vest is knit in the vertical orientation instead of the horizontal that most patterns call for. The self striping Noro yarn lends itself beautifully to this orientation.

The vest was great until I did the crochet edging. The crochet caused the knitting to bunch up near the shoulders. Sheesh, what's up with that?

Crochet totally convolutes my brain. I have a hard time with it so I keep doing projects where I get to practice it. Maybe one day I'll figure it out.

Tonight I am going to make some felted soap covers and do a few rows on flirty skirty.

Focus, focus, focus.

--Erika