Why am I presenting to you a baby sweater knit a charming shade of soft purple when the only baby around for me to knit for is male? Because now.....there's a new baby in town! My best friend J's sister had her baby! I crafted up this little sweater which I'll be sending out soon. It seems like there's babies all over the place....Mom's coworker is due July 4th, B just had O, and this youngin.
Now what's this you may ask? This is the Hourglass Sweater from
Last Minute Knitted Gifts, the second attempt. I wanted a better fit (longer torso and arms) so after I completely finished one I restarted it and made another of the same color. Luckily, I had enough yarn left over, well almost, I had to order two more skeins. This sweater is perfect, EXCEPT I do not like how wide the boatneck is and I even tweaked the pattern and made it substantially smaller than the pattern. I'll still have to wear a tank under it because my bra straps can be seen otherwise. I really like the fit of the sweater otherwise and I'm actually tempted to make it again in another color. By the way, I loved this yarn. It's a cotton/linen blend that was on clearance at
WEBS (it's called
Cotolino). I'm going to check around if I can find it other places becuase it's the perfect spring/summer weight yarn. This sweater pattern was nice and basic, it would be a good one to experiment around with some of my patterns from
Vogue Stitchionary....hmmm perhaps.
Why am I presenting to you a baby sweater knit a charming shade of soft purple when the only baby around for me to knit for is male? Because now.....there's a new baby in town! My best friend J's sister had her baby! I crafted up this little sweater which I'll be sending out soon. It seems like there's babies all over the place....Mom's coworker is due July 4th, B just had O, and this youngin.
Now what's this you may ask? This is the Hourglass Sweater from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, the second attempt. I wanted a better fit (longer torso and arms) so after I completely finished one I restarted it and made another of the same color. Luckily, I had enough yarn left over, well almost, I had to order two more skeins. This sweater is perfect, EXCEPT I do not like how wide the boatneck is and I even tweaked the pattern and made it substantially smaller than the pattern. I'll still have to wear a tank under it because my bra straps can be seen otherwise. I really like the fit of the sweater otherwise and I'm actually tempted to make it again in another color. By the way, I loved this yarn. It's a cotton/linen blend that was on clearance at WEBS (it's called Cotolino). I'm going to check around if I can find it other places becuase it's the perfect spring/summer weight yarn. This sweater pattern was nice and basic, it would be a good one to experiment around with some of my patterns from Vogue Stitchionary....hmmm perhaps.
That sweater is beautiful! I love the cuffs.
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