Wool Soaker
Ta Da!
Knit Pix, Wool of the Andes, Tumeric and Conch. Pattern found on Ravelry (free, wool soakers).
Overall Cost, 5.00 (using up wool I already have). Time spent, about 10 hours but much of that was fiddling with the pattern, now that I have practiced and reworked some of the glitches, I bet I could do it in half the time.
It wasn't too bad for my first attempt at 1. A garment, 2. Short rows, 3. Gussets, 4. Sizing and working off of a gauge, 5. Making adjustments and alterations (fancy word for tearing out stitches and redoing redoing redoing until I was satisfied).
I actually think they turned out quite cute, however, following the pattern guidelines, I am not satisfied with how high the waist goes up (hence the fold down). I made several notes on how to fix this in the future and I used a ton of math to do it! (Who knew ratios would come in so handy!)
I soaked the wool in a lanolin solution to prep it for use and let it dry (took 24 hours!). Glorielle finally got a chance to wear them this afternoon. She had them on for about 4 hours and had 2 pee diapers. I did notice that they felt a bit damp. Not sure exactly why and what to do about it. I think G's diapers need liners for sure because they are soaked through with just a pee and I wondered about adding some sort of liner in the gusset. I have a couple less cute patterns to try and maybe a different style will wick away better. Who knows. In the meantime, we will give it a go with her jeans tomorrow and see how dry she stays.
Knit Pix, Wool of the Andes, Tumeric and Conch. Pattern found on Ravelry (free, wool soakers).
Overall Cost, 5.00 (using up wool I already have). Time spent, about 10 hours but much of that was fiddling with the pattern, now that I have practiced and reworked some of the glitches, I bet I could do it in half the time.
It wasn't too bad for my first attempt at 1. A garment, 2. Short rows, 3. Gussets, 4. Sizing and working off of a gauge, 5. Making adjustments and alterations (fancy word for tearing out stitches and redoing redoing redoing until I was satisfied).
I actually think they turned out quite cute, however, following the pattern guidelines, I am not satisfied with how high the waist goes up (hence the fold down). I made several notes on how to fix this in the future and I used a ton of math to do it! (Who knew ratios would come in so handy!)
I soaked the wool in a lanolin solution to prep it for use and let it dry (took 24 hours!). Glorielle finally got a chance to wear them this afternoon. She had them on for about 4 hours and had 2 pee diapers. I did notice that they felt a bit damp. Not sure exactly why and what to do about it. I think G's diapers need liners for sure because they are soaked through with just a pee and I wondered about adding some sort of liner in the gusset. I have a couple less cute patterns to try and maybe a different style will wick away better. Who knows. In the meantime, we will give it a go with her jeans tomorrow and see how dry she stays.
Poor little thing has a terrible rash. She has been off of gluten for about a week now with no improvement. I will give it another week or two and then I will need to figure something else out.
Cute soaker! Emily, Silas had the same rash for 6 months. I read an article about yeast and causing face rashes in kids in the Azure Standard catalog/magazine. I took all yeast out of his diet and its totally gone. I have a copy of the article for you if you want it. A lot of kids are allergic to commercial yeast according to the article. It's surprising how many things have yeast, things you don't expect like crackers, cereal.
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