Posted on 08/25/2008 by Barb
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… and I hope getting your new Bump Sweater makes you feel like you’re the winner even though you had that setback on your project.
Yes, folks, I made it to the finished line in the Ravelympics Sweater Sprint for Team MN. I bound off the last piece of the Bump Sweater on the plane home from New Jersey on Thursday, August 21st, soaked and blocked the pieces Thursday night. By Saturday morning, August 23rd, it was dry and ready for seaming. So, yea for me, I finished the Sweater Sprint!
A great quick project and I hope you love it, Andrea!
Posted on 08/15/2008 by Barb
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I have set the Holiday Stocking project aside for now and am just concentrating on the Sweater Sprint – the Bump Sweater project. I have completed the back, and have started the front piece. So I think I’m on track to complete that event on time.
Tomorrow morning Needlework Unlimited is having a Dye Party in their parking lot. Andrea and I have signed up to attend and play around with dying a couple skeins of sock yarn, using all-natural dyes of course (oh, did you know, she's pregnant?). It should be geat fun and I’m really really looking forward to it (dyeing yarn and being a grandma).
On my drive in to work this morning I was thinking about “the sweater project” and “the pregnancy” and “the baby.” Andrea asked me yesterday if I had a sense of whether it’s a boy or a girl and I said I had no sense of it. But on the drive in this morning my mind was filled with girl names and girl things … so I think somewhere deep in me is a sense that this is a girl.
... 50:50 chance I'm right!
Posted on 08/05/2008 by Andrea
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I have to say, it's pretty cool to be knitting something for my baby. Somehow it makes it all feel just a little bit more real to be creating something tangible that I can imagine putting onto a baby - my baby. Kind of mind-blowing, really.
This is my first baby knitting project so far. It's the Sideways Sockyarn Baby Sweater. So far, I'm pretty impressed with how well-written the pattern is. It would be a good pattern for a beginning knitter; it explains things like how to close the gap formed when you join knitting in the round, and why knowing the difference between a M1 increase and a knit-into-front-and-back increase is important. It's the sort of pattern that immediately instills trust that it will not lead you astray. I hope it continues to live up to that glowing review. And it's fun to knit up something that has such an unusual construction.
I can't wait to see how this turns out!
