Birthday Wool

This is the Christmas cardigan I never finished. Did I even start it...? I had a manic amount of gifts I was excited to do then and this fell to the bottom of my list. I have managed to finish it in time for a birthday gift for the wee Boo. Only because I was mock-stern and told myself I could not put another project onto my needles until I finished at least one thing first (I swear sometimes I think about buying more needles simply because mine are all tangled up in half finished projects). This looked the most likely to complete and since I REALLY really want to get started on some Baby Legs I have been knitting into the small hours to finish this off (I speed up and get addicted near the end).





But it helped that the wool was so very very lovely to touch. This is one of those yarns that gets softer and softer the more it is touched. I knit a hat in the same stuff a while back and now it is keeping the head of my niece warm as Esmé outgrew it. It is from a local shop. It is a merino cashmere blend. The colour is quite accurate in these photos, I just love it! The pattern is the Shawl collared one from the Baby Knits for Beginners book by Debbie Bliss. I bought some fancy buttons with hand painted poppies on but I always knit my button holes too small and these were too big so I substituted some little dotty ones from my button jar. You can buy some lovely bags of these buttons here. I have this fascination with buttons and collecting them which is unfortunate for my dh as he has phobia of them. No joke! It took him years to tell me about it but I always forget and hold them right up to his face for his super close inspection. It's a selective phobia though, like necessary buttons are ok, but decorative ones freak him out. So he really LOVES my felt hair elastics and brooches, what with their sole decorative appeal. :)

She's doing her mad maniac look here where she screeches at us and cackles wildly.


I think I would also quite like to make her a fabric book but am not sure what sort, with fabric photos, or with bits that go in pockets? .... ideas most welcome!



While waiting for my bath to run last night I ran this up for Isaac (I had a luxurious ten minutes to myself as everyone else set up a train track). I made him a robin brooch for Christmas and he liked it lots so I thought I'd make a bigger one to hang on a random hook behind his top bunk: For sweet dreams and to rub the red belly for luck we decided. It is wool felt with some carded fleece stuffing.