I found a unlabeled ball of fingering yarn that I’m 99% sure is a ball of Pebble Felici that I got as part of a sock knitting kit way back in 2009.
Modifications:
Following Aphasia’s instructions in the pattern comments to knit in the round and avo…
Got a skein of Color Mist for free from a Knitpicks promotion and decided to make another baby Flax sweater out of it.
07-22-2018
On the arm holes, I did backwards loop cast on… I wasn’t fond of the cable cast on for the neckline as it left a hole. 🙁
The stripe pattern wasn’t working well with the multicolored yarn, so I’m switching it up:
I worked three repeats…
Modifications:
Following Aphasia’s instructions in the pattern comments to knit in the round and avoid seams.
For the bottom, garter section, change the plain knit rows (1, 3, 13 and 15 for 1-6 mo size or 13, 15, 17 for 6-12) to purl. For the upper…
I actually discovered a half-finished Flax Light project from 2016 (before my first kiddo was born) on a size 3 40” circular needle, and had no idea what yarn it was, but recognized the flax light pattern because I’ve made several worsted weight Flax …
Using leftover yarn from some other projects. I know I got a 0-6mo sweater in the Flax pattern out of a single ball of Mighty Stitch, so I expect to have plenty of yarn between 1.5 skeins of navy and a barely used skein of white.
06-26-2018
Reached…
Hopefully I have enough yarn to finish this… I have about 59-60g left after making my flax light baby sweater so it may be a nail biter.
07-20-2018
Starting the neckline before the sleeves, since I may be playing yarn chicken.
I decided to do the …
I edited the stitch counts a bit to make the 0-6month size even smaller to fit a newborn. Based on my first kid, I make tiny babies 😉
I also plan to do the garter ridge on the sleeves in seed stitch, instead.
I edited the stitch counts a bit to make the 0-6month size even smaller to fit a newborn. Based on my first kid, I make tiny babies 😉
I also plan to do the garter ridge on the sleeves in seed stitch, instead.
07-30-2018
I am so terrible at blankets… They take SO much time! I hope I can get this done before baby #2 is born!
08-11-2018
Baby #2 arrived and I haven’t made much progress on this blanket, but at least it’s not winter/cold weather yet!