Knitted up lots of beanies / berets during winter but could not meet up with anyone to check fit (sizes range from large heads to small heads and everything in between). Thanks to Adam and Maria for taking some snaps – this is just a sample.
Successfully completed a matching little blue (teabag) beanie without any drama and went onto a big blue slouch beanie. Got to say the toddler looks very cute and will be able to grow into the little blue jumper! Happy days.
To add some variety into the lockdown activities I decided to knit a jumper. I am a good knitter but I haven’t knitted for 20 odd years. Enjoy my decision making and the consequences of those decisions:
Good decision: Start small with a jumper for a toddler
Bad decision: Knitting everything “in the round” – hadn’t done that before. Uses circular needles to get a seamless garment.
Bad decision: Didn’t read the pattern all the way through
Result: Got the pattern wrong. By the time I realised my mistake, because I’m knitting “in the round” I was half way through the entire jumper.
Worse decision: Just keep going, it’ll be alright
Good drawn out decision: When got up to the armpits (two-thirds through the entire jumper), it was looking not good. Unpull the whole bloody lot and start again
Good fast decision: Dump the pattern and keep to stocking stitch you’ll knit it much faster (clever, clever girl)
Result: Way faster – yeh.
Finished knitting through shoulders and casting off the neck, looked at neck, stretched neck, Oh dear – having visions of mothers pulling jumpers up over a toddlers head and thinking ‘Jesus they’re gonna rip his ears off.’ Spoke with the nanna – has he got a big head? Yes, yes. OMG.
Think carefully Wendy, how to just unpick the neckline without stuffing up the shoulders.
Good decision: Careful unpicking of neckline allowed me to knit it and the collar much more loosely. Hopefully he retains his ears. It looks really boxy, if nothing else it should be good for the sand pit!
Bad decision: knitting a toddlers sleeves on 4 in the round – 4 small bamboo needles which though not exactly pin point, are sharp; it was like death by a thousand pin pricks.
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