Hiya Melissa here from Southern California

[honeyb4]

Hiya everyone! My name is Melissa I am a 41 year old NICU nurse , married to my best friend Chris and have two adopted daughters who were once my patients in the NICU. We are expecting a girl in August so we are busy making fitted cloth diapers, bought a few aristocrat wool diaper covers and I am attempting to make a wool crochet/knit soaker. Do these soakers work well even if they are hand knitted /crocheted , granted that you lanolize them ?

I found a cute pattern on the internet and I have crocheted the front and back and now I need to figure out how to work on the waist band that will be knitted on , so if anyone can explain how to go from a crocheted piece that I have already fastened off to starting the knitting portion I would greatly appreciate it , this is the pattern I am using.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/mothershelpinghands/crochet.html

thanks so much in advance!
Melissa
33 weeks 3 days pregnant
breastfeeding, cloth diapering, sling holdin mama to be :)

PS how do I add one of those cute smileys???

[pamelamama]

Welcome! You need to pick up stitches as in a neckband.

:sg

http://www.stitchguide.com/stitches/knitting/stitch_pages/kn_pickupandknit.html

:wave

You can add emoticons using the code, or to the left of the edit box, as you enter your post. :idea:

[Meredith]

:wave

[dandelions2]

Welcome!

[ladydemetreis]

Welcome!!! :knit

[danaTCT]

hi welcome! i am an ex nicu RN. i haven't worked in over2 yrs. LOL. i doubt i'll ever go back to the nicu being that i have been skill-less for so long.

congrats on the new babe to be. how wonderful that you were able to adopt your patients.. and yes hand knit soakers work beautifully!!!! :bigups:

[honeyb4]

Thank You all for your warm welcome to your group :)

How cool to see that I am not the only NICU nurse in our group :) I am glad to hear that the soakers do work well , thank you. Now I just need to go to my local knitting store so they can help me out with showing me what the pattern tells me to do :)

I want to add one of those cool emoticons but I am not sure how to do that , any suggestions would be appreciated :)

Melissa
34 weeks today

[pamelamama]

Melissa, try typing this:

: chava

except without the space between the colon and the word.

You will get :chava

You can also get emoticons (smilies) by clicking on them to the left of the box where you enter your text for a post.

[honeyb4]

Melissa :chava

:knit busy TRYING to knit soakers

thanks you Pamela !!!

[pamelamama]

you can also make that your signature in your profile. :chava