Baby February II - Take 2

This is Take 2 of knitting this sweater.  It started with the BattleStar Galactica game that I was playing.  We earned points over the month for the finished knitting projects that we had.  When I started this sweater, I had a couple of different dye lots of the Malabrigo Worsted in Orchid.  I had started the sweater in the wrong dye lot.  I was so eager to get my points, I figured that I would just finish the sweater and see how much the difference in colors showed.

To the non-knitter it was probably fine, but I was not happy with it.  So I frogged the entire sweater and reknit it in the same dye lot.

I'm so annoyed with myself that I got a little too wrapped up in the BSG game.  Taking longer to finish something properly is always better than getting a project done quickly.  Since having LG, I haven't had a lot of had time to knit.  I was doing less and less with the game and after a month of not reading the forums, I decided to just leave the group.  It's a little liberating.  I should do the same thing with Farmville HA!  

I had to modify the pattern to fit BG.  The collar fits her nicely, but I think the I put too many increases in the yoke.  It flares up a bit more than I would like and the body is a little large.  It was my first time doing major modifications to a pattern.  Something that I have learned takes practice and quite a bit of math.  Even using Elizabeth Zimmerman's equation for making a sweater in any size. Thankfully, kids look good in knits that are a little too big.

BG likes it, looks cute in it and she'll be able to wear it for a very long time.  A couple of years at least.

Home
Sorry if the blog seem boring today.  DH has been home sick for the last two days and has been working from home on the computer all day long.  He went to work today, but I think that I now have something and the headache that comes with it is horrible.  I'm just trying to give you a blog post since it is already half way through the week. 

Baby February I

I was originally going to take pictures of my daughters in their clean white dresses and matching sweaters.  It was going to be so precious it would make you want to throw up.  I believe there is a precious that cute.  However, this never happened. -- The cuteness happens all the time, just not the other thing.

The girls have been wearing their sweaters for a while now, sometimes together.  Normally we are getting dressed up, which means we are going somewhere, which means I'm running late.  No time for pictures then.   At some point you think I would of managed to get them into the backyard to take pictures.  It's really not that hard and I don't know what is wrong with me.  I haven't gotten them to the photo studio together for pictures either.  White dresses and BFSs are planned for those, also. 

I've finally decided that I just need to take some pictures.  LG is taking a nap and BG is at school.  I'm in the backyard taking pictures of yarn.

This is LG's sweater.  It's suppose to be knit on two needles.  That's the actually name of the sweater, Baby Sweater on Two Needles.  I did the yolk carefully following the directions.  Then I started the lace pattern.  After two repeats, I pulled up all the BFSs on Ravelry.  "Yeah, it looks like everyone else did two repeats before starting the sleeves." 

I was pregnant and didn't feel like finding my measuring tape.  Plus, I'm making something for a baby and even Elizabeth Zimmerman, the designer of the sweater, said the gauge doesn't matter because the baby will grow into it.  I figured this also applied when considering sweater length and whatever else.

Pregnant.

The next step of the pattern is to knit the sleeves.  Psshh.  I don't want to be bothering with two knit sleeves getting in the way while I'm knitting the rest of the sweater.  I decided to knit the body first.  Silly Liz.  Or maybe silly me...

Pregnant.

When I returned to the sleeves, the no longer could be knit on two needles because I now had a round hole that they needed to be fit into.  Oh well.  I bought some double pointed needles in the proper size and just knit them in the round.  In the end, I had no seaming. Yay!

I've always said that there is no right way to knit, just a wrong way.  And it ain't wrong unless it looks wrong.  My sweater looks just like everyone else, so I'm cool... and Pregnant!  Well, not anymore, but.. you know what I'm saying.

Now that I finally have buttons for this sweater, LG has been wearing it regularly and looking oh so cute.  The buttons are perfect for this sweater.  I'm so happy that I went back and got them.  I think that we can get lots of use out of it.  Because I choose to make it short sleeves, as she starts to grow more, it becomes a bolero.  Someone already commented on her cute bolero, so I'm going with the flow. 

Pregnant Brain!  It never really goes away.

Cruising

I wasn't going to post today, but sometimes when I'm cruising the internet I see things that are so funny I just have to share.  This is a seriously funny photobomb.

Also on the internet, I'm sure you've seen this commercial floating around.


Check out the making of it.  They basically knit the house and then frogged the whole thing as the filmed it.  All that knitting gone.