oops! ugh!

I just entered my very first blog contest, at The Pen Addict, and I messed it up! It's a random drawing from comments left on the entry. Contestants are limited to one comment and I left two due to a weird hitch in the authentication process -- that part where you type in the same (distorted) letters & numbers you see on the screen. Oh well.

? hm.

Does anyone besides me find it so poignant that people bring their knitting to the Yarn Harlot (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee) for her to see, and maybe bless? I find it touching that they love her so much, and that she loves knitting so much, and that she may even love people so much.

at long last

I have knitted something! It's Blu and here it is, front and back:



I followed the pattern, except where it said to sew the live stitches down with the blue sewing thread. I used the main color yarn to sew the stiches. This gave the waistband more sproinginess. I tried the sewing thread first, and there wasn't enough give. I also decided to gather the waistband a bit when I measured the elastic - my baby is pretty low on the weight portion of the growth chart.

To mimic the stitching, I used the embroidery floss. If I knit this again, I will definitely use orange yarn! The embroidery floss had a habit of disappearing into the knitting. To compensate, I used double thicknesses to embroider and I didn't pull the stitches any tighter than necessary. This was a fiddley thing to finish, but well worth it!