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FO: Fondant February Baby Sweater

Friday, June 19, 2009 at 8:14AM

At long last, the button is sewn on and it's photographed.

Awww.

I forgot to knit the buttonholes into the garter yoke, and instead of fixing it at the time, I just sewed in a little ribbon-tab to hold the button.

I love how the button turned out! So cute. I bought a set of two of these large, fabric covered polka-dot buttons from one of my booth neighbors at Maker Faire. Polly Danger has the cutest buttons, aprons, bias tape, bags -- you name it. And they're SUPER NICE! I got another set of 6 smaller buttons with the same fabric. You never know when you'll need buttons!

The details for the sweater:

Yarn: Fondant Merino Sport in "Robin's Egg", about 3.5 oz --200 yards, with a little leftover.

Needles: Addi Turbo size 6

Gauge: 5 stitches per inch.

Mods: Unintentional omission of the buttonhole. I made the sleeves a teensy bit shorter than called for in the pattern. They're about 4" instead of 6."

I love this sweater pattern. I've made three: two baby sweaters, and one Lady Sweater (Ravelry). The Lady Sweater was my Ravelympics project last winter. It has really become my go-to baby sweater. Good thing all the people I know having babies these days are having girls. :)

I'm also back to working on the Ravi-Gyles from oh-so-long-ago (sorry, Ravi. I super owe you.). But you might notice something a little different about them.

Oh yeah! They're not Argyles anymore.

I got about halfway down the leg of the second sock and realized I'd royally messed up one of the diamonds. Like, it was 5 rows shorter than the previous diamonds. In most patterns, I wouldn't have cared. Well, I would have cared, but I'd have faked it until I couldn't take it anymore, then ripped it back. Oh wait! That's what I did!

The diamond actually looked fine. It looked like a diamond, just like the rest. The problem was that the center didn't line up with the centers of the other diamonds, so when I went to do all the duplicate stitching for the little Argyle lines (like this), I would have had massively wonky lines through that diamond. Blurgh.

I ripped it out with every intention of doing it again. But then I just sort of lost the will. It turns out I hate knitting Argyle socks, no matter how you knit them. Intarsia is my mortal enemy. Screw that nonsense. Tobin's poor Aaaaargyle that I started on our mini-honeymoon to Vegas last June is still sitting in a drawer. I'll never pick it up again. And these, the Argyles in a tube, which I thought so brilliant (it still is brilliant. BRILLIANT! No intarsia!) is still making me crazy. It's too precise.

I knit because I like things to be fluid. Even knitting a complicated lace chart, I can still fudge most things enough that you won't notice mistakes, and that's the fun of it. For me. The process. I love it. These babies? I didn't love. Wasn't having fun. So now they're Ravi-Stripes, and the first sock is almost finished after 2 days. And I'm going to enjoy every moment of ripping out the first argyle sock to recover the yarn. Ravi will have his socks soon. Oh yes, he will.

Adrienne |

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Reader Comments (4)

The baby sweater came out so lovely. And of course the color is beautiful!

I actually like the mismatched socks... Maybe the giftee would too?

June 19, 2009 |

Jill P. oboegoddess

I actually thought about giving him the mismatched socks. He probably WOULD like them... but I'd still have to do all of the duplicate stitching. Which means they'd sit in a drawer for another several months. It's that weird knitters lack of rationality that has me more willing to rip out a whole sock than do some finishing that I'm not interested in. :)

June 19, 2009 |

Adrienne

I love your sweater, I saw the sample vest in this same yarn and now I have my first big project. The yarn is great! I wish I could dye yarn too!

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