Hello! Long time no see! Well, actually it hasn’t been that long, but you know… I’ve been making lots, but not really much that’s blog-able. Lots of trials and tests of our new pattern, which should be coming up pretty soon, so please look forward to it!
I also had a bit of a horrible health issue in there as well, which hopefully has been cleared up now. Nothing to really worry about.
But in the meantime I knitted this new cute little set for my littlest grandson Gilbert! When he’s a bit older I can hopefully take a picture of him actually wearing it, but right now it’s over 30C so maybe not just yet!
So, in my end of year post, I mentioned I had a huge stash of wool that I was planning to pass onto a day care centre or something. Well, while looking more closely at it I actually found an old needle in one of the balls of wool. HORROR! I immediately felt immense pre-guilt that I could have inadvertently exposed someone’s child to a potential injury… just imagine! Anyway, the upshot was that I decided to make more of an effort to use a bit more of the wool myself. I have tentative plans to produce a new thing every month but I admit that that is a lot, so I’ll just see how I go!
I used the same pattern I used for the previous knitted set for him from last October, the Naturally Yarns pamphlet K679. That first one was for size 6-9 months, and this new one is for size 12 months. It’s all leftover wool, and even the buttons are from my stash too. The buttons don’t even match each other, but that’s ok! you can hardly tell without looking closely. It was fun to choose wools and colours again, and to blend them all in in a way that would look intentional, and like a proper design. I wonder if I could get away with making a few more sets?!
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