I haven’t made quite as much progress on the Bean’s “Five Hour” Sweater as I’d hoped, since this weekend was a bit busier and more draining than I expected, but I’m definitely on the home stretch of finishing the body. It’s very cute, and I have no idea if it’ll be too small or if he’ll need to grow into it, but I hope he’ll be able to wear it at least once!

I’m gathering a little pile of all my oddball skeins of non-superwash wool to make knit soakers with. I have a couple free patterns I want to try, in particular this one (Ravelry link) from Warm Heart Woolies, which is shaped like a standard wrap diaper cover and can have a button or velcro/Applix closure. Here’s a random example picture from Flickr; for some reason a baby in a wooly little diaper cover is just too adorable!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15115763@N04/3692080974

I also ordered three kinds of home-dec-weight fabric on sale from fabric.com for making a ring sling and a pouch/tube sling. I’ll see which kind me and the Bean like best, and make a second one of whatever type that is. (Jag doesn’t get one because he’s much more interested in using the Baby Bjorn carrier we got second-hand from one of my very generous coworkers.)

And now to bed.