I made three woolly alpaca friends at the Fiber Festival of New England on Saturday. Such sweet faces!
I made three woolly alpaca friends at the Fiber Festival of New England on Saturday. Such sweet faces!
I’m continuing the knitting series today with the newest addition to my daughter’s sweater collection.
I loved making my daughter sweaters when she was little, but she went through a phase in elementary school and middle school when she absolutely refused to wear sweaters I made. I reluctantly turned my needles to other things. Once high school hit, however, she began to appreciate a good, warm sweater. Now that she’s full size 🙂 they take a bit longer to make, but I do try to make her one a year.
This Maeve sweater by Carrie Bostick Hoge was the perfect choice for this year. My daughter picked out a cadet blue super wash wool from Knit Picks and I was off.
This was a super fun and fast project, and it looks very flattering. I’m planning to look for a beautiful shawl pin to close the front and make the whole thing even cosier for the cold, New England Winter.
The amount of knitting I do waxes and wanes, but this past summer and into the fall I definitely got my knit on, as they say on Mason Dixon Knitting. I thought I’d share the newly finished and current projects on Fridays until I run out of fun things to show.
This is my new warm sweater made with a vintage Aran pattern I purchased on Etsy after eyeing it for a year. The pictures are a bit wonky, but you get the idea.
There were a few stops and starts along the way. First, I ran out of yarn before I’d finished. Thank goodness Knit Picks had another skein of the same dye lot. Thank you Knit Picks!
Then I found six buttons at JoAnn but needed seven. After a frantic internet search (The best JoAnn could do for me was to send me driving all over the state with no promise that other stores would have the extra buttons I needed.) I found matching buttons at Pacific Trimming in New York, and they sent them right off to me.
So now, just in time for cool temperatures I’ve got a vintage look, brand-new, superwash wool, Aran cardigan WITH POCKETS.
I do love sweater weather.