Just a bit of a health update on my wee one. Things seem to be going well, her nystagmus is improving, and she doesn’t seem to be having any developmental issues so far, which is a huge relief. Somewhere in all the follow-up testing, a specialist did note that she has a heart murmur, but considering what was being discussed at the beginning, I nearly laughed with relief. I’ll take a heart murmur over a lot of other things. We’ve still got lots of testing to go, but so far, so good (fingers crossed).

Recently off the needles: a pair of fabulously little legwarmers for Lila!

Pattern: Lila’s Legwarmers

Yarn: Tanis Fiber Arts Pink Label Laceweight in ‘Moonmist’

Needles: 3 & 4 mm dpns (US 2.5 & 6)

Mods: Used laceweight yarn held double, and added an extra half repeat for a little extra length.

Knitting with laceweight held double feels a bit like pulling off a magic trick- it knits up at the dimension of fingering weight, but feels lighter and airier.  And hey, it was a great way to use  up the rest of the skein from this project.

The pattern was great- it was my first time knitting lateral braid before, and the designer has a link for a great tutorial right in the pattern, so it turned out to be easy-peasy.  The pattern is designed for younger babies (I’d say 3-10 months works great), so to make a slightly larger size for my 14 month old,  I went up a needle size and added an extra half repeat of the chart.

And she likes wearing them! I can tell because if she doesn’t like wearing something, she attempts to yank it off somehow. I’d love to put cutesy headbands on her, but she pulls them off every time.