Jayden's Camo Longies

After my last disasterous attempt at longies I was going to wait a while before trying again but then an hour later I changed my mind and got right back into it =p These ones turned out MUCH better. They fit him perfectly and I like the colours a lot better than the colours I was using for the first pair.

Please ignore my mess!

Longies Disaster!!

On Friday night I started knitting Jayden a pair of longies and with the exception of a few minor setbacks it was all going well. I finished the whole top part and had done half of one leg, then this morning I tried them on him to see how they were fitting...

And they're too small :(

I can get his legs in but they are pretty snug around his thighs and I wanted them to be loose, more like pants rather than fitted tights. *sigh* Even if I did just keep on going and leave them as tights, I doubt they would fit him for much longer.

I don't even want to think about how many hours I've put into these!

One Pink, One Green!

I have finished both kid's hats =D I'm in the middle of doing a scarf for Ella to match her hat and I was going to wait until that was done before I posted pictures but I'm too impatient! No scarf for Jayden because he pulls it off after 3 seconds. He loves his hat though!! He fell asleep wearing it today but it fell off while he was asleep and when he woke up he was frantic trying to find it to put it back on his head.



It's funny how in my last post I said that next time I'd do some ribbing at the bottom and that I would use bigger needles, and then I went and made the exact same hat again without ribbing and without bigger needles =p It does curl up a little bit without the ribbing but I still like the way it looks.

A Hat for Ella (WIP)

I haven't posted in here much lately because I don't really have any completed projects. I do have several WIP's though so I thought I'd update about one of them. This is going to be a hat for Ella (I hope!! haha)

This is my first time knitting with circular needles and I have to say, youtube has been a GODSEND. I typed in 'knitting on circular needles', clicked on the first interesting video that came up and it taught me everything I needed to know. Before I started I looked at the needles and thought 'How on earth does this even work??" but once I got started it was really easy and I can say I'm now 100% in love with circular needles. I'm only 1/4 of the way through though (if that) so that may change haha.

I've already came across a few things I'll do differently next time though. Firstly, knitting on 4mm is not for me! I only started it this morning and already I'm frustrated at how slowly it's going. I do love the effect of the tiny little stitches though so I think it will be worth it. Secondly, next time I'll do some ribbing first to stop the brim from curling up so much. I'm hoping that once the hat is actually on her head it won't curl as much, but I really have no experience with this so I have no idea how it will look.

So yeah, that's what I've been up to! (one of the things anyway) Hopefully in the next few days I'll make some progress that's worth posting about.