One plus one plus one...

I knitted a sleeve for the baby jumper yesterday. Then I got up this morning and started idly trawling through Ravelry for interesting patterns, until I gave myself a stern talking to: one sock, one fingerless glove, one sleeve - anyone see a pattern here? So I knuckled down and have nearly finished the second sleeve (we're not discussing the sock or the glove at the moment).
I have a problem with this jumper however... It's one thing to knit away casually without a pattern when I'm knitting for my girls - I can always reach out and grab them as they whizz past and hold the knitting up against them. But it dawned on me as I knitted the first sleeve, that I have no idea how big a six month old is. So I have no idea if this sweater will fit or not. Now the obvious answer to that is that it could be given to an appropriately sized child if it's wrong. But - and here's where I stun myself with my own idiocy - I have knitted the six month old's name into the front of the sweater.
If it is hopelessly wrong I'll be offering it free on Ravelry to anyone who knows a baby called James...

TLAs

OMG

It's been less than a week since I last posted!! Hope you're dead impressed. I have to say that when it comes to knitting blogs, Ravelry is the devil's work. No-one seems to be blogging regularly anymore - they're all hanging out on Ravelry nattering. And while this is a good thing and to be encouraged - it means I'm stuck reading the Yarn Harlot and The Panopticon over and over and over. (Of course, they're bothe worth reading over and over, but I used to be able to skitter around ten or twelve blogs every day...) And of course I'm as guilty as anyone...

WIPs

I am still working on the second sock but I have secondsockitis. I knit a round and think 'Oh God, I've done this already', and turn to something else. Luckily it's still pretty warm here so the socks won't be needed for a while.

The baby jumper came to a grinding halt when I left it on the sofa (you'd think I'd learn...) and Jess jumped on it. Normally knitting wouldn't be affected by a few kilos of small child jumping, but I was knitting with wooden needles wasn't I? Crack!

But I did manage to revive and finish Jess's jumper and what's more it fits (always a toss-up when you're a lazy mother who can't be bothered finding a measuring tape or a pattern).

It's a pretty standard jumper with no pattern. This time I hemmed the waistband and cuffs instead of ribbing, so that the pretty wool would show its variegation off nicely, and I like how it looks. I did a row of eyelets around the neck as decoration - I'm planning that she'll wear this over a skivvy in winter and I didn't want a tight neckband. (And how cute is my Jess? You'd never guess what an evil, feral, demon-possessed child she really is by looking at those photos.)

DPNs

Despite being slack about the sock, I decided to perservere with the DPNs and what do you know, I think I've finally got them beaten into submission. Exhibit A - four DPNs PLUS cables PLUS a thumb gusset...

And oh boy am I proud of myself! :) I started this yesterday and it was SO quick - finished it at about 6pm - and 90% was knitted in five minute bursts in the car. Now I have to do it again... this could be a repeat of the sock...