Yarn Along #3

Joining in with Ginny again, here's something I'm making and something I'm reading:

The stripey thing is on of the leg bits from the soaker from last week's post. I decided to make them ribbed, by doing rows of treble-crochet (double in US) where the hook is only inserted into the back loops of the stitches on the previous row. I've alternated the navy with rows of red, which will be the back ribs (I don't know what the more technical way of putting that is). I'll be stitching them onto the soaker. Hopefully it should be finished by the weekend!!
I haven't really been doing much reading, so I've included the magazine I bought the other day, Inside Crochet. I haven't even had much time to read it, but it has some really cute patterns in it.

Yarn Along #2

Joining in with Ginny again, here's something I'm making and something I'm reading:


The long thing will be a crocheted nappy soaker for WJ. It's loosely based on this pattern here. I've used Drops Alaska, colour 12, navy blue. It's 100% pure new wool so can be lanolised.
I got the book from the second hand market here. WJ wouldn't settle the other night so I started reading it to her, starting with the first story, The Pied Piper of Hamelin :)

Yarn Along #1

This is my first 'Yarn Along' post. The idea was started by Ginny, where we share something we're knitting or crocheting, and something we're reading.

So I'm crocheting a bag for my nephew, Toby. It will hopefully look like Toby the steam tram from Thomas the Tank Engine. I'm using the super chunky Eskimo pure wool yarn from Drops by Garnstudio. It is so soft!! This is the first actual thing I've crocheted, apart from a small flower. It isn't perfect as I've just made up the pattern as I've gone along, but I'll be putting it in the washing machine to felt, so you won't notice the uneven rows so much ;)

The book is Baby-Led Weaning by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett. It makes so much sense to wean this way. I don't want to be forcing mush down my baby's throat! I also plan to breastfeed her on demand for as long as possible, so after she's had the freedom and trust to eat as and when she needs/wants, I don't want to take that away from her. She knows what she needs more than I do.

Children's Books

As it's been Children's Books Week this week I thought I'd share a photo of WJ's bookshelf. The books behind them are my baby/parenting books:

Most of them are too old for her (she's 2 months), but they've either been given or found at the train stations. Both Hebden Bridge have a little library where you can take and leave books. K reads nearly every book left there!

I did buy her a few board books. They were on sale in Mothercare, and were on 3 for 2. This is our favourite:

It's the only one she really looks at. The contrasting black and white is interesting to little babies.

K was really excited to find this for her while I was still pregnant:


I love this book. This was another train station find:

The illustrations throughout it are beatiful. It's a cute story about a Princess who gets a Polar bear as a companion.