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There's nothing wrong with your monitor - this IS the exact same baby sweater I posted last week, but with different yarn and buttons. I had a baby shower to attend recently and needed a project that I could work on while traveling, so I turned to my go-to, the Seed Stitch Yoke Cardigan . I knit the sleeves two-at-a-time on the way to TNNA, and started the body of the sweater on the way home. A few monkey wrenches popped up once I got home (namely, losing an entire day to being flattened by a nasty cold I picked up at the show), and I very nearly didn't finish in time to gift this to the intended recipient. Somehow it all came together, and my iron had the good graces to break down only after I'd finished steam blocking this project into presentability. That was lucky! Tip: Add a sample of wool wash to your gift! Also lucky was finding the perfect buttons in my stash, something I hadn't thought through when choosing the yarn color (incidentally, I used Knit P...

Seems like there's another wave of babies in 2017, and I haven't been very proactive about preparing it, even though I had plenty of advance warning. My sister's request for a baby sweater and hat to gift to my nephews' babysitter flipped the switch for me, it seems - now I am knitting like crazy to get a few more baby sweaters knit up for my friends who have either just had a baby, or will be having one later this summer. My go-to book is 60 Quick Baby Knits , and I used two skeins of Berroco Vintage to knit the Seed Stitch Yoke Cardigan and Rolled Edge Cap . Aren't they cute? I happened to have the perfect buttons on hand, which I'd bought last summer with the intention of getting ahead of this baby wave - then I got distracted by a bunch of other things, as so often happens (at least for me). Here's hoping I'll have a few more cute baby knits to share later this month! Thanks for stopping by - have a crafty weekend! 

I knit this wee hat using some destash yarn simply because I wanted to make it...there was no baby in mind at the time of the cast on, and I just randomly chose a size to knit, hoping I would find a baby whose head it would fit at some point in the near future. Not to soon after finishing the hat, I found that baby! And unfortunately, I didn't even get a chance to block the hat, much less properly photograph it. So here is the one I took on the fly before I gifted it to its forever home. It's not my favorite photo, but it'll have to do: Pattern: Wee Hat from New Guy by Kate Oates Yarns: Traveling Rhinos Merino, O-Wool Organic Merino 2-ply and Wonderland Yarns Merino from one of their Mini-Skein packs. Project page here.

I finished my first (of many) October KAL projects this week! This first one is for the   Hops & Hanks Fall KAL , and it's knit with a new exclusive base of yarn available at  A Good Yarn Sarasota  called  A Good Yarn Fingering . You can choose from a 50g skein for $15 or a full 4oz skein for $32. I used a 50g skein in the Autumn Jewels colorway, and I have enough left over to knit another pair of socks or perhaps even a matching hat! Knit with A Good Yarn Fingering in Autumn Jewels Speaking of which....this pattern is from my back catalog,  the  Sweetest Baby Socks . When I originally designed these socks, I used one of my favorite superwash yarns for gifted items, Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock. Knit with Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Sunshine While I would still very much recommend this yarn, the put-up has changed for Shepherd Sock, which makes purchasing a skein of it specifically for this project a tad impractical (however, if you have a...