Showing posts with label baby sweater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby sweater. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Adventures with double pointed needles





I'm currently working on a baby sweater for Finnigan Pomeroy Wall (due 10/1) and it's going pretty well.

The pattern is interesting, it starts at the neck, knits all the way down the sweater, creates a border for the bottom, cardigan area and neck and THEN moves to the sleeves. I'm done with the base of the sweater and sleeve number one - where I had my first go with DPN. It wasn't too hard, the only thing that was difficult at first was that while I was making K stitches, by accident I was doing it in the wrong direction so it ended up looking like P stitches from the outside. So the sleeves will have to have a ridge of P stitches because I didn't know how to take out stitches in DPNs.... its not THAT bad, I'll just have to replicate it on the other sleeve!

In either case, the sweater is adorable and its been a good challenge for me. Especially because I somehow lost the pattern between my OBX trip and now so I'm going to have to do sleeve #2 from memory. Wish me luck!