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September 1, 2003
Busy Little Bee
One (and only one) good thing about working nights at a very slow hospital is that I can knit like a fool. Seth has just started to allow me to knit for brief periods at home but mom+sitting=nursingxfeet in face=no knitting.
This weekend, I finished two sweaters. One is a <a href="http://debcodding.com/Jamiesweater.jpg">beautiful baby sweater</a> for a coworker. I used Sirdar Silky Look, which is an absolute dream to work with. I had used it to make the <a href="http://debcodding.com/sweater.JPG">same sweater (different stitch though)</a> for Seth when he was born.
The <a href="http://debcodding.com/bronwynsweater.jpg">other sweater</a> is for a little girl that was born prematurely this summer. I adjusted the pattern to make the newborn sweater bigger and accidently made it about 12 months size. Hopefully she will double in size by November hahahahaha. I rummaged in my immense stash of yarn and found this awful multicolored baby yarn from the days when I used crappy yarn for crotcheting. As pleasureable as the Sirdar yarn was to work with, this yarn was horrible. The sad thing is that I have about a dozen or so skeins of different colored/weight cheap yarn in my stockpile. I decided after this project, not to foist it onto anyone else.
I am now finally (!) going to make a sweater for Jake and then for Eli. Jake has been patiently (and not so patiently) waiting for his turn. He even picked out this really neat yarn that ended up being used for a <a href="http://debcodding.com/stripesweater.JPG">sweater for Seth</a>. I tried to resize that pattern for Jake but only got a <a href="http://debcodding.com/blueandgreensweater.jpg">4T out of it</a>, so back to the drawing board (I really like that pattern though).
So five (there was one misfire) sweaters in 6 months. Not bad at all.
Posted by DebC at September 1, 2003 12:10 PM