The miracle wip is a work-in-progress no more!

The miracle yarn (rowan all seasons cotton) held out until the last few rounds of the last tier. So instead of having to knit a whole tier in the dark navy, I just used it to work the little picot edging at the bottom of the skirt. I love it! I wish I could claim that I'd planned it that way.

Wee says it's not "fancy" enough (okay, Fancy Nancy!) but I suspect that she really means it's not pink enough. Once she got a good twirl out of it, she seemed to forgive it for being blue.

After a month of illness, I had my first full pain-free day yesterday and could finally get back to knitting wee's blue twirly skirt. Since I'd made one of these for her before, and used like seven balls of Rowan handknit dk, I was sure that my four balls of Rowan all seasons cotton would never be enough to complete the four tiers necessary to make the skirt really twirly. But as I joined the fourth ball a few rounds into the fourth tier, I began to think it would be a knitting miracle. I had already pulled out some navy handknit dk for the final tier, so when the light blue ran out just before I was to begin the picot edge, I thought it'd be perfect to trim the edge with the darker blue.

It was looking large, so before I bound off the 250 or so stitches and sewed up the hem, I decided to have wee give it a quick try-on this morning. It's even bigger than the one I made her last year, which is still plenty big on her! But with some good, strong elastic, it should stay up high enough for her to wear it this Spring.

And now I'm looking forward to another sunny and healthy day and a new knitting project tomorrow!

Wee one is so done with pants. She is in some ultra girly girl phase right now and pants are completely out. I've managed to get her to wear tights under her dresses in the last week, but when she wants to wear a shirt and I insist that she must wear something to cover her derriere, there's only one choice: the twirly skirt I knit her last year. So it is clear that we will be needing more of these skirts.

In the stash I found four balls of all seasons cotton in a pale blue - some Rowan member gift pack - just begging to become another Twirly Skirt. I had to dig harder to find my old copy of the pattern though. It's the Barefoot Knits Twirly Skirt but it wasn't ever in the book (which, itself is now, sadly, out of print). The skirt pattern has, however, recently been posted as a free pattern (available in pdf format) on their website. Hooray! It is a super easy and fun knit - just a bit boring with all the stockinette.

I'm pretty sure that my four balls of asc won't be enough to finish the size 4 skirt I'm making, so I'm planning on doing the last tier of the skirt in some navy handknit dk I discovered in the stash near the asc. Also found in the stash: some pinky pink cotton glace for yet another version of the skirt. And if I can make it to the back of the closet - to the back stash - I bet I can find even more twirly skirts waiting to be made!