More FO Photos!


Here is DS modeling his latest sweater. This is the Naturally Yarns Vero sweater I did as a sample to try out both the yarn and the pattern. It knit up quite quickly and easily and the yarn is warm and soft so I like it for that. It is a single ply and lightly spun so I anticipate it will pill easily which means its a Sundaygoingtochurch sweater rather than a Hangingaroundthehouse sweater.
I knit this in the 4 yo size and the sleeves needed to be folded back 3x but other than that it fits him pretty well I think. And with enough room to grow that he will likely get 1-2 more winters out of it. Gotta love that.

Here is the sweater on its own and in better lighting. I like the colors and how it stripes up.
And here are the finished DS mittens to go with his hat. I finished them the other night as it was snowing, just in case he actually got to go play in the snow.
Unfortunately, its been very cold and windy and the poor little guy already has a cold with a really yucky nose so we haven’t taken him outside. Perhaps we’ll get one good snowstorm with snow kids can actually play in this year . . . otherwise, these mittens won’t see much use.
Luckily, they are small and knit up fast! Notice the I-cord connecting them? Yeah, I didn’t feel like ending up on a scavenger hunt in our back yard to find mittens this small and dark colored so on a string they go.
In other knitting news, I got to work on 2 whole rows of Fern last night and I’ve done 2 repeats on the Handspun shawl so we’re seeing some progress on the bigger projects, even if it is slow. At this rate I figure I’ll be wearing Fern next winter. Very, very unlikely that I’ll get to wear “her” this year.
I also tried to start the baby blanket for the gift I need to do. I just couldn’t do it. I had bought some Red Heart Soft somethingorother and I tried 2 different ideas (didn’t like the way the log cabin looked) and I just couldn’t stand to knit with that yarn. I’ve taken the whole bag, all 7 or so skeins upstairs to MIL who I’m sure will do something wonderful with it. She prefers acrylics and so will enjoy this yarn. I did tell her who it was for and what I had intended. It will be interesting to see what she does with it. If I had to guess, I’d say she’ll crochet a baby blanket for the same recipient that I had intended it for, but that is just a guess.
I’m hoping to start the baby sweater I need to do later tonight if things go well with getting “sticky” to bed tonight. That gift is for a baby due in about 2 weeks so I should maybe get moving on it.
I’ve got a couple more yarns to go add to Inspirations and then I’m off to fix dinner.