I own a ridiculous amount of yarn (and fabric), but I'm also not going to turn away someone who says "hey, have some nice yarn for free", especially when they're friends and don't really know what they're doing around yarn. I ended up with four skeins of sock yarn (Knit Picks I think), two each in pink and green. I'd figured out recently that two skeins of sock yarn is no longer enough for a full sweater for the Puppy, so I figured I'd make good use of it while I had the time. Add a transatlantic flight in January and lots of travel in between (not the DC trip....flying with Puppy means no knitting time). I managed to finish this sweater just as the plane pulled up to the jetway in Berlin last week.
The green accents make her look like a little watermelon. I thought about duplicate stitching little seeds on the sweater, but that ended up being a little more work than I was up to at the moment. It's a modified version of the Starlette sweater, which I love. This is my second Starlette (a repeat, which I never do) but with real ribbing instead of the garter ribbing called for int he pattern because the garter rib didn't add enough structure in the yarn I used on the first one and it stretched out so quickly I had to sew some ribbon to the neckline. No pockets on this one because I forgot to put the stitches on hold and by the time I realized my mistake, I just didn't care. And one big button instead of two or three. It holds just fine and the Puppy rarely wears her sweaters buttons anyway. (Like mother, like daughter.)
It's a size 2, which is bigger than she needs, but she's not going to be wearing this regularly for several months since summer in Naples is HOT. But it will be a breath of summer in the cold of December and should fit her well then.
She seems pretty happy with it, and while it's not my colors, it incorporates one of her favorites - GREEN! My little one isn't in the pink phase yet, though she has plenty of that color scattered through her wardrobe. She loves green and purple and blue, and there don't seem to be any colors she dislikes. She wears a uniform to school, so no peer pressure about color choices yet, which I like.
Great job on the sweater!
Posted by: Leigh | June 18, 2018 at 08:46 AM