knitting for me

One benefit of reclaiming a little bit of my evening time with the floor-bed system I wrote about a couple posts back is that I can have a teensy bit of knitting time every night. While there's a part of me that wants to do nothing but knit more Maddypants (and Maddysweaters, and Maddyhats, and…

cloth diapering: what works for us

I promised a post about cloth diapering, and here it is! Before Maddy was born, we decided we would rent newborn-sized diapers for her. This is because all of the "one-size" cloth diapers (the type with snaps that adjust the height of the rise) are pretty dang huge on a newborn, so we wanted diapers…

our nursery now

There hasn't been any knitting since I finished the second pair of Maddypants, but I figure that doesn't mean I can't blog! So, how about a baby-related post? Y'all remember this post about our nursery? Well, as is bound to happen when babies are involved, we've made some changes that seem to work better for…

Things I make for Maddy: more Maddy-pants!

I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted last, but it was long enough ago that I'd forgotten what my last post was about - how funny that I've got two posts in a row (but almost 2 months apart) about the same pattern! I ended up going up two sizes with…