Yes, I have been away for a while. No, I have not stopped knitting.
See, it’s really, very tough to take photos for the blog when there is no daylight to take the photos in. Since I have gone back to work, I often have to be up very early and work hard during the day. This seriously cuts into my “me time” (of which I had very little before). So, the question is knit or blog? I have been choosing to knit. This works out though because without knitting, there would be no blogging.
I can’t wait for this little sweater to be done. Just in time for spring right?
This pattern is a super easy knit.
However, the sleeve directions are a little fiddly and so instead of using the spare needle, I simply knitted across the required stitches with scrap yarn and once I was ready to do my sleeves, I unpicked the scrap yarn and picked up the stitches for my sleeves. I am also finding the ribbing to be a bit tedious, but I am so close to being done and I can see that it will make for sleeves that will fit either Monkey as she grows.
I also wanted to share a skein of handspun that I picked up from Ravelry. This fingering weight yarn is so incredibly soft and vibrant. I can’t wait to see how it will knit up.
