newborn longies

I was probably a little too excited when a friend asked me about cloth diapering. I cloth diapered both of our boys, primarily using fitted diapers with wool covers.

In my overexcitement, I made the expectant parents these:



I didn't have any good soft to the skin gender neutral yarn, so I dyed this (plant material dye, frozen from last year's garden) single ply Uruguay merino for this project. I used my friend Heather's pattern, making them shorts length for the summer due date, and added a little owl cable.