More pics of FO's in use :)

I nabbed these from Harriet's Mama's EC blog a few days ago but haven't gotten around to blogging them yet...until now :)

So here is Ms Harriet modelling her dress, hat AND legwarmies all at once!

Quick preggo update

Had a midwife appt last week and keep forgetting to blog it, the sleep deprivation induced haze is pretty thick, LOL.

It was just a quick appt, she stayed for only an hour as opposed to the usual 2, because the 2nd midwife couldn't make it (she was with a labouring woman) and they want to come back in the next few weeks so she can catch up with me too.
My blood pressure was low (for me anyway) again, and is kind of interesting to me...in the hospital system with the previous pregnancies my blood pressure was starting to rise about now. Homebirth and home appts more relaxing perhaps?

She felt the baby move and we just basically chatted about stuff. The boys figured out how to use the blood pressure thingy which was pretty funny and then while rifling through her bag for cool stuff to play with, Jet sat on the doppler and turned it on, scaring the crap out of all of us LOL!

So there it is...all normal and boring without any stupid scary tests or pointless ultrasounds to talk about!

Finished objects in use, yay!

(Yeah I am so not creative with titles at 7:56am when I have had next to zero sleep for oh....however far along this pregnancy is...)

Harriet's Mama was kind enough to let me nick the photos she posted on her EC blog of Harri modelling the legwarmies I made for her, so I am sticking them on here too :)
I think the fun of making something for someone doubles, triples....skyrockets maybe? when you know that you have made something useful and that they like, and photos are even better, LOL.

So here they are! And the original post where the photos came from is here.

Photos of Finished Objects!

So if you are Harriet's Mama and don't want to spoil the surprise, don't look!!!

Over the last few weeks I have been knitting away madly to make a few things for Ms Harriet (unfortunately I dropped a stitch on the very rainbow thingy and couldn't save it...had to frog it and start it again...well, I will start it again when I stop being shitty at it!).

Harriet and her parents are doing Elimination Communication (and the related blog is a fascinating read!!), so I tried to make things that are EC friendly. Here are the finished objects.... there will be at least one more (the rainbow thingy), but have a bit of yarn left over from these things and keep contemplating what I could use it for LOL.

(btw I am linking these to my Ravelry projects so you can find the patterns from there if you are interested...if you aren't on Ravelry, well then, maybe you should be LOL)

Firstly some very cute Legwarmies. The pattern is made for 3mths - 2 years so I tried to make them a wee bit smaller so that they would fit Harri better now. Not the most colourful wool, but being Cleckheaton Cocoon it is very soft, and the colour can go with anything I reckon :)



Next up is a Sleepsack. Kind of a deceiving name because it is open at both ends, so more like a sleeptube! (Notice I manage to snap the pic only seconds before Indy stood on it, cheeky cheeky!) Ultra soft and warm, the ribbing is Paton's Jet, which is a blend of wool and alpaca and the body is The Knittery's Posmerino, a blend of merino and possum fur!



This next project was a little bit scary for me, LOL. It has *gasp* side seams! I have never done side seams before, but can now say I nailed and am no longer afraid! (Though I think I may have made the seam too thick on the inside iykwim) This is Blossom, a dress made in The Knittery's Merino and Cashmere, the colourway is called Bloody Mary.
I am going to take the ribbon off though, I don't like it, its shitty ribbon... I didn't realise it was shit until yesterday when I took it off the reel thingy to sew it on :( I think I will crochet a tie instead.



I have a fair bit of the Merino/Cashmere leftover from Blossom so yesterday I whipped up this hat, from a Cleckheaton Crochet book I bought a couple of weeks ago, pattern not in Ravelry sorry... A Lace hat it's supposed to be the 3mths size, but I think I made it a wee bit big...good thing babies grow and not shrink!!!



So I am sort of working on Rainbow thingy, LOL, and with still a fair bit of the merino/cashmere left I am thinking of what else I can make with it... and starting to think about making stuff for #3. Or maybe Indy... Or maybe Jet... Or maybe all 3 LOL.

More photos :)

More teasing here, hehehe.

Have finished 2.5 things for Ms Harriet now (the .5 is seaming that I am avoiding because its scary LOL) and cast on another yesterday...while contemplating another teehee.

So without much more blabbering, photos!



The first photo is an update of the ball of 'rainbow' wool that I posted the other day. And second photo is some very rainbow wool that I picked up the other day :)

Because I am a teaser and teasing is fun

(and it makes me look like I am actually blogging when I'm not really writing about anything interesting, LOL)

another sneaky peek....




This is about to become something else for Ms Harriet. The colours kinda suck in that photo, LOL, but it is supposed to be sort of rainbow coloured, not bright (because it is merino wool and possum fur) but still rainbow-ish...I just suck at taking photos of yarn, hehe. Will try to get a better one when the work is in progress ;)

And for fellow Ravelers (is that the right way to say that??) if you look in my projects you will find what it is ;)

A sneaky peek and more artwork.

There's nothing more fun than teasing people who know they are receiving something with little sneaky peeks at what they are getting.

So these 2 knitted 'somethings' are for Harriet...I wonder what they are???





And what's a mummy blog without lots of bragging. Some more pics by Jet done this afternoon.
Lots of shapes!

Recommended Reading ;)

I may not have been blogging much myself lately but there are 2 blogs in particular that I have been enjoying following and for anyone who happens to be looking for something crunchy, inspiring, and just really interesting, as well as really getting you thinking, I highly recommend Harriet's Mama's 2 blogs :)

First there is
The Musings of Harriet's Mama
The Life & Mind of a Lotus-Water-Freebirthin', Co-Sleeping, Non-Vaccinating, Baby Wearing, Cloth Nappy Using, Elimination Communicating, Lactivist, Feminist, Mum of One.

And her second blog, serving as a sort of diary for her family's journey with Elimination Communication (you might not want to read it while eating though, I learnt that from experience, LOL).

See A Cue? Catch A Poo!
This is where I keep track of our elimination communication (EC) journey. EC is the practice of learning and watching for a baby's elimination cues and catching her poo and wee rather than leaving her to soil herself. It's about strengthening communication between baby and parents and keeping baby in touch with her instincts

My little artist :)

The blog is being a little neglected right now...sorry bout that...oops!

Thought I would make it look a little interesting by sharing some pics I took this morning of Jet's artwork. I have been a slack mummy when it comes to rescuing a keeping his artwork before he and Indy decide that ripping paper is fun, oops! So when I saw this mornings pictures, I jumped on them!

Here we have an E and an F


a Z and a 4


Lots of I's an A and I think an L


And my favourite, a person!



And here is a pic of the fingerless gloves I made for a fellow Woolaholic for the I Love Lace swap, I hope she likes them!!


I have also been busy knitting a few baby items, not for my bub, but for Harriet...I can't show pics of them yet cos I want them to be a surprise for her mumma ;)


Not much else is new around here...still battling the nausea, gah, I can't believe it... 23wks+(ish, LOL) and still feeling awful. No vibes to what the gender is yet, though I have been told by a few people that they think I am having a boy. Is that because I have 2 already??? I'd say they have a 50/50 chance of being right, hahaha.
Maybe there's one of each in there...

A brief update.

Thought I would just give a little update on the pregnancy side of stuff...I am still sick. Yep. 19+wks and still sick, fabulous! Little people poo is so not helping either!
So being sick all the time tires me out a lot, and the feel of yarn, any yarn, makes me feel blergh, means there's not much exciting things happening here.
I am horribly late with the lace swap through Woolaholics, I hope my swapee forgives me...eek.

There's not much to tell really...baby is moving LOTS sometimes it even makes me feel sicker, great! Apart from the fatigue and the sickness everything is going about as it should.
I have had 2 'appointments' with the midwives, 1 was with 1, the other with the other, LOL. Both consisted mostly of chatting about irrelevant stuff, ahhh love it!
As we aren't having any ultrasounds, we have decided not to use a doppler either and so the midwives will listen to the baby's heartbeat with a pinard (have a look here for a pic). I assume they'll have a go at the next appt, I'm not too fussed about it though, with the way its kicking me all the time I know its in there!!

um...I think that's about it!

Jet's 3rd Birthday!

Yep, that's right, my biggest little man is 3! It was Jet's 3rd birthday on Thursday and I am still recovering, LOL. Seriously though was a little tough for me emotionally being the anniversary of a trauma and all, being pregnant and actually allowing myself to feel it makes me kind of mourn the birth that I could have had, and I think reinforces the decision I have made to have a homebirth this time and not just go for the caesarean again like I did with Indy, something I don't think I should have done. Oh well...homebirth, homebirth after a caesarean, its still just a birth!

Jet got a dollhouse and a sandpit and is totally loving them both. Sand is being spread around the backyard as I type.....

Here are a few snaps to reminisce, and one from the day itself....

At birth

First birthday

Second birthday

Night before his birthday

Enjoying cake!