This weekend was one of crafty fits and starts. I started a new pair of "TV socks", tinked back three rows on the Dragon shawl and re-knit two of those rows (I know that doesn't sound like much, but the rows are 230 stitches each and there is lace knitting on both the right and wrong side of the fabric) and sat myself down and started up on the first of two sleeves I need for Z's Zebra Striper Sweater. I'm beginning to enjoy stranded color work more and more, but I don't think I'm ever going to like it much on double pointed needles. Just two much shifting of yarn and needles and so forth. But I'm well past the colorwork now, and just have to alternate colors until all the increasing is complete and I've reached the needed length.
I really want to get this little sweater finished by the time it starts to get cold -- since she's already put in her request for socks (she keeps picking up my Wee Skein Socks and asking to try them on!) and I feel like I've got to take advantage of her requests for knitwear before she gets old enough not to want anything to do with what Momma knits.
I really want to get this little sweater finished by the time it starts to get cold -- since she's already put in her request for socks (she keeps picking up my Wee Skein Socks and asking to try them on!) and I feel like I've got to take advantage of her requests for knitwear before she gets old enough not to want anything to do with what Momma knits.
Tinking is my personal nightmare. Tinking back 3 rows is a ton of work on even some of the smaller lace patterns and is all the harder if it patterned on every row!
That sweater is going to be really cute! In my house, the phase of loving everything mamma knits lasted till about age eight and age three depending on the individual -- aran sweaters excepted. They went for a few more years. The age eight daughter loves knitted presents again and the other will wear gloves or scarves, but I am sure an actual sweater would be a no-go.
Oh yes! Certainly take advantage of her wanting to wear your handknits. I would never knit my husband sweaters if he didn't want to wear them - it is powerful encouragement.
Your fears may never be realized! I have a 27yo son who asked me for a handknit hat in the colors of his alma mater, 26 and 24yo daughters who go thru my Vogue and IK to request handknits and ask for help with simple baby knits that they can make for friends or co-workers, a 17yo daughter who shares my patterns and needles and rifles thru my stash (she always asks "is this OK to take?" first- well trained child) to make hats and toys for friends (and most of her friends- boy and girl alike- now know the difference between knit and crochet and drop not-so-subtle hits when I'm working on something they like) and an 8yo daughter and 15yo son who leave sticky notes with big arrows on patterns or in knitting books in a bid to have their project added to the (never ending) queue. I think my 20yo son and my husband are the only ones who have never specifically asked for a knitted item (tho both have or had handknits from me that they have happily worn). Sounds like Ms Z is going to be in the lifelong knit love category, even if is just socks or an item that looks like the expensive one from Gap (a mitten request in the past from one of my then-teen daughters!).