Clothing the family in wonky craft

A visit from my US-living sister gave me the perfect excuse to knit up lots of wonky babywear for her to take back to her toddling and soon-to-be-born granddaughters.  Cap-sleeve tops and hats delivered today.  Tick.

 The In Threes cardi I started last week is still on the go.  It might be finished by the time the soon-to-be-born girl is toddling.  The super-chunky pure wool is more suited to a North-West-USA winter than to a Melbourne one - it's like a little winter coat!

 The smallest fashion designer in the house has contributed to the new bub's wardrobe, too.

Wild young thing that I am (not), I spent  Friday night with the knitting machine and a cone of linen-cotton yarn.... 2000-odd rows of stockingette and not a dropped stitch.  Loving it.

I'm particularly liking the wrong side of the fabric.  The texture and the depth of colour in the yarn is more apparent.  It's soon to be something for ME!

 And I played with a ball of Bendigo 'Highlands' yarn, using every second needle on the knitting machine.  I like the fisherman's jumper rib-effect.  I like the tweedy colours and texture.  I just have to work out what I can make with my one 200g ball of this yarn...?

I remembered today, that I hadn't blogged the bamboo yarn machine-knit socks I mentioned ages ago.  Here they are on the washing line, between two hand-knit pairs.   I think I have the hang of the process of machine-knit socks now, I just have to get over my left-right dyslexia.... or else live up to my reputation of having two left feet.

 In other machine-knitted-wonk news, the girl finally wore the vest that I made (badly) months ago.  Cotton 4-ply 'Amalfi' yarn from Lincraft....the machine hated it.  There was lots of coarse language, silicone spray and a complete re-working of one shoulder...  And then  I realised I'd put it back on the machine the wrong way to make a "design feature" of garter stitch on one shoulder.

 I gave up decided to make it 'unfinished edge' style.  I really, really love the colours and the texture of the knit, but the shape of the garment  isn't quite right.  The girl agreed to wear it around the house but "not in public."

She did, however, wear her self-made outfit of skirt and top (seen under the vest, above) to a large (in-laws) family gathering today.  Luckily, I was at my own large family gathering and was blissfully ignorant of the fact.

Had I been there, I would have denied all responsibility for her slap-dash approach to fashion.