New %*&@! Baby Sweater

Despite my lack of posts, I have been knitting away. About a month ago I decided I wanted to knit something quit and easy(!) and decided to try a baby sweater from Stitch and Bitch Nation by Debbie Stoller. I thought I'd knit the Baby's First Tattoo sweater but I didn't like the patterns they offered so I made my own. A) I need to buy some graph paper and B) I need to knit the pattern before I knit it in a sweater from now on.

So here is the finished project:

I jumped right into the project and soon discovered that this raglan cardigan was knit in several pieces (two front pieces, back piece, two sleeves) --what a nightmare! I didn't think I minded piecing things together before but this pattern taught me a lesson. I also didn't really know how to do intarsia so one mushroom was a poorly made fair-isle. I wrapped the other mushroom nicely though so I can say I did learn something from this project. I'm not completely happy with the final pattern...the mushroom stem looks a bit wonky, but it's not like I have to wear it.

There was a nightmare amount of weaving though:


I think this summer I might stick to socks and sewing. I'm off to sew some canvas grocery bags! Hopefully I can post the results before the weekend disappears.

Twinkle sweater, orange dress, & scrap blanket

This is the Twinkle cardigan from the same issue of Vogue Knitting as the Orange Dress. I still have to weave in ends and then block it, so I'll make a more detailed post when it's all done.










This is a scrap blanket I started ages ago. I work on it one or two squares at a time when I want a break from other projects. I love scrap projects! It's about 3 1/2 feet square right now.










And, here's the back of the Orange Dress. The front is about 6 inches long; it's going very slowly!