Gloves and toddler sweater...

[neotoma]

My mom sent me a CD of photos snapped in 2004, including two knitting projects I did for Christmas that year.

	Leah E's gloves Made over the Christmas holidays in 2004 for my sister-in-law. 5 st/in, using the glove pattern in The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns and two ball of Noro Kureyon
	Cam's Christmas Sweater Made in 2004, out of Noro Kureyon. Buttons from G-Street Fabric. Drop-shoulder pattern made using Sweater Wizard, and modified for shoulder buttons.
	Cam's Christmas Sweater Seed stitch on the cuffs, neck, and hem, with buttoned shoulders. Sized for a three-year-old, but given to 1 1/2 year old Cam because he was so tall.

Gloves are pretty fun to make, as it turns out, but I want the recipient THERE to try them on; people have all sorts of finger-lengths. Toddler sweaters, well, the kid will *eventually* grow into them.

Comments

[rowanrhys.livejournal.com]

Very, very nice! The sweater is absolutely adorable...:) as is little Cam.

I haven't tried a sweater yet... working on baby booties, my Slytherin scarf, and plotting out a hat pattern...

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The sweater is an easy pattern -- knit in the round until the armholes, minimal shaping, and all the color variation is in the yarn. The only tricky bit is putting the buttonholes in the shoulders.

And Cam is completely adorable -- and *huge*. He's going to be 3 years old in 2 months, and he's 3 and 1/2 feet tall.

If you want to try a sweater, a baby/toddler sweater is small enough you can get it done in a month, but has all the components of an adult pull-over.

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Nice work - my mom's been turning out various crochet-wear for the grandkids and various other friends and relatives. You did gloves!! Wow. I always thought those were hard to do - is there a trick to it? Also, do you use circular needles for them? Love that yarn, too.

And, it seems to me I missed noting your birthday while I was offline, so...

Happy Birthday!

It's going down to 8 degrees tonight. Brr. Hope you are warmer on the east side of the country!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Crochet is fun, but it's much more drape-y than knitting, so what you can do with it is different.

The gloves aren't that hard, but they need to be made carefully -- cuffs, then palm with thumb gusset, then pinky finger, then ring, index and forefinger, finishing off with the end of the thumb. The book really has a lovely pattern in several gauges and sizes.

I used double-pointed needles -- Swallow Caesins, in fact. The faux tortoise-shell is very pretty and works nicely with wool. You need dpns for the fingers, at the very least.

Noro Kureyon is a lovely worsted-weight yarn, and comes in many many colorways. Some are very bright, some are subdued, but they're all gorgeous.

Thanks for the belated birthday greeting. I'm not going to go out tonight, as they're predicting it will get down in the teens. :P