EVERYDAY!
Takin' care of BIZ-ness...
EVERYWAY!
Takin' care of BIZ-ness...
IT'S ALL MINE!
Takin' care of BIZ-ness ...
...and workin' overtime - WORKOUT!
I don't know how hard BTO is workin' these days, but I myself, have definitely been working overtime. This leaves little time for knitting, and even less for blogging about it. Somehow, I managed to squeeze out this little BSJ.
PATTERN: Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann (duh!)
YARN: Mission Falls 136 Merino (just over one skein per colour - ink #22 & natural #1)
NEEDLES: 4mm addi turbos (60cm/24")
NOTES/MODS: The new BSJ wiki on Ravelry was invaluable for helping me through this. I used one of the spreadsheets there to help me keep track of my rows. No real mods, though I had to fenangle a few rows to make sure my two-row stripes were consistent.
Let me just say - I love it! I've never really been a fan of the BSJ. It always looked so 70's to me. Not 70's in a good, Fleetwood Mac/boho/gypsy... kind of way, more like a god's eye/granny-square-vest/macrame sort of way. Know what I mean?
I think colour choice can drastically change the look this little sweater, and I couldn't be more smitten with navy and white stripes! There's something about two-row garter stitch stripes that just makes me happy.
What doesn't make me happy? The one tiny flaw in my knitting:
I suppose it's not so much a flaw, as an inconsistency. There's a section in the pattern where you need to pick up stitches around an edge. In order to keep my stripes in, well, order, I had to pick up stitches from the wrong side of the work on one end, and from the right side on the other. This means they don't match - grr! I'm sure there's a way to pick up the stitches so that they would match, but it doesn't bother me enough to rip back and fix it. I'm picky, not crazy!
And hey - if you're reading this and suspect you will be the recipient of this little sweater, just keep it to yourself and act surprised when I give it to you, okay?
6 comments:
IT IS BEAUTIFUL!! Great work, Julia! This is such a sweet little sweater and looks fabbo in the blue and white stripe.
Your mistakes - GLARING! I don't know how you can possibly give a gift with such OBVIOUS inconsistencies glaring through the rest of it. FOR SHAME!
(In case you are too sensitive, the above is merely a jesting form of sarcasm... a lowly form of guffaw....) : )) Fox
PS The buttons: perfect!
It's adorable. I can't even see your mistake after you pointing it out. We can share the "toughest self critics" award.
For me?!! Really?!! You shouldn't have!
Especially as it wouldn't fit.
uh, there's a mistake there?
it's adorable. Kid just needs 'lil sailor hat to go with it!
it's gorgeous, and no one but you will notice that so-called mistake in the picking up!!!!
love the buttons, too ;)
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