From another project (pictures to came) there was about one ball of yarn left. Girly colours.
What would be more obvious than knitting something for the girl of the household?
You are right - nothing!
Girly Halter
Great ideas don't always work out equally good. You can see that here - my daughter thinks it's too short and it is always puckering at the top towards the center being not soo tasteful then.
Meanwhile I did two "corrections" - I added a flared edging at the bottom and found another way to attach the neck strap, but that isn't completely finished yet.
I also made a second edition of the top, which will hopefully work out better.
I already knew my son is among the thinner kids of his age.
But I didn't know it was that extreme.
Or how odd patterns can be.
I have some balls of Schoppel Wolle Softappeal in red-anthracite sitting around for quite some time to make a sweater for my son. I had some general ideas how it should look like, but no actual pattern. Last week I thumbed through the summer 2008 issue of Bambino Stricken and found there just the right sweater, so I bought it. Yesterday I cast on for this very sweater and worked happily along until about 20 rows where finished. Then I decided to check my actual width and the pattern a little more. I chose size 8 yo (he is 7 years meanwhile and the sweater should fit a little longer).
This is, where my rant starts.
Oversized is cool and looks great on little boys. But it's easy to take things to extreme. My son's shoulder width is 25 cm, when I look at yarnstandards he "should" have about 27 cm and a chest circumference of about 67 cm. What on earth do I do with a sweater that is 84 cm wide? That is way beyond oversized, that is my-child-is-drowning-in-his-sweater-size.
So everything back where I started and see, how much I can calculate down to get a reasonable size. In my opinion it should have about 10 cm less around the chest to look good, but I'll take some more measurements tomorrow (he's sleeping now).
Hm - I just checked the Piratenpulli. This pattern even gives 88 cm around for a 5/6 year old size. I should really do some more measurements before I frog.
You are right - I twisted the cast on and work a pseudo-Moebius. Not what I intended for a tank. Happens, when you close the round, while sitting at the coffee table with a friend and chatting. And because the stitches where rather squished I didn't see until about round 10.
Alles auf Anfang / Back where you started
But this tank conspired against me - two more attempts didn't work out either and now I'm makeing something completely different from this yarn!
I can give a cautious all-clear concerning my girly sweater.
I finished the front piece and there are still a little more than 30 g from the first ball left. So I used for this piece clearly less than one quarter of my total amount of yarn, which should leave me with enough to finish both sleeves, nearly one skein for each.
But I'm running out of beads. Yesterday I stringed them for the back and I had already to use my third (and last) container. Okay, I used some of them for my daughters cap, but not many. In those 17-g-containers are only about 500 beads each and I need (if I'm doing the math right) 2,112 of them ...
I made the very same sweater about 2 years ago for my niece. It became the favorite sweater, meanwhile outgrown and now she wishes for another one as christmas present.
How could I resist.
But it seems I'm running tight on yarn - I have 3 balls and about 25 g from a leftover, the front piece is about 15 cm and I've used about 40 g of the yarn. I thought it would be easily enough, but the girl is bigger than I thought. If anybody has a leftover (or even a whole ball) of Regia Cotton surf color provence - I'd happily take it ...
About 2.5 years ago I've knit those sweaters for my daughter and my niece. Of course they're both outgrown meanwhile, but my daughter inherited the larger one and is contend at the moment. My niece loved her's very much, too and now wishes for a new one. It should be lilac. So I had the first problem - the yarn line isn't produced any longer. Nicole gave me two balls, another 1.25 where in my stash - problem solved.
Now there is the sizing problem. But that has to be worked out by her mother, who is to tell me how long and wide it should be. I started with threading the beads because the minimum amount is known already. I won't do more of them, because the sweater would get too heavy. I used a bit larger Rocailles and I'll need probably more than three containers of them - that would be more than 50 g.
But I'm really looking forward to knitting the sweater. They were much fun knitting then and it will be much fun again.
The two biggest of them are living here with me. And when today the new Jungshans-newsletter arrived they just got mad about this pattern. But they want it to be green, because Shaun lives on a green meadow, right?
I'm in a scarf-knitting-frenzy with children's scarfs - always alternating, one day skulls, one day hearts. Because of a sudden cold outside it's rather urgent.
That's about 12 inches so far. Double knitting isn't the fastest way to get through a project but I like the outcome. In the end it should be about 48 inches.
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