After biking (the kind with pedals) around the hotel grounds this morning, we decided to relax a bit.
By the pool.
Yes, that’s my knitting. A pair of wool mitts. Pattern is called Treads. I’m writing from my iPad so getting the link to show up is challenging. I’m relaxing, so if you want to find it, I’m sure you can. Or leave a comment and I’ll look it up I and get back to you in a few days.
I’m having a hard time believing it’s still winter at home. We’ll be returning to this soon enough.
Beautiful. And no snow.
Other than a couple of pairs of baby booties, I had not knit anything for our grandson, who turned one year old last month.
I knit sweaters for his twin sisters for Christmas 2013 and had enough yarn left over to knit a sweater for him.
I used Elizabeth Zimmerman’s February baby sweater on two needles but tweaked the pattern a bit by increasing the beginning stitch count to 70 stitches.
I also added buttons and button band down the the entire front and ribbing at the cuff. \
Okay, so maybe I just used her outline for the increases at the top of her sweater to make this top-down raglan sleeved sweater.
Is this sweater different enough that I can post the pattern?
Edit: I wrote this in 2025 from my 11-year old notes Click here for pattern. Warning: not tech edited.
The yarn is Louet Gems 100% Merino Wool light/worsted weight, 100 g/175 yd.
I used two entire hanks of the Pewter and part of a hank of the Linen. I knit the sleeves until I ran out of yarn making the ribbing extra long so the cuff can be folded back or not.
The buttons are almost a perfect match. Not that they need to match. I preferred less contrast so the stripes would be stand out more.
I added satin ribbon to the button side to give the button band more stability.
Added the same ribbon to the buttonhole side and did machine buttonholes in the ribbon before hand sewing around each buttonhole to secure the ribbon to the sweater.
Of course I had to show the model.
He’s a sweetheart!
Last Wednesday I went to our daughter’s house to babysit our grandson since our SIL was out of town on business. Our daughter was one of the moms who had to help with a Valentine’s Day party at school and younger siblings were not allowed to attend.
They live west of us so I checked the weather forecast for Thursday and Friday. We were supposed to get 5-8 inches of snow and they were supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow.
Well, it didn’t quite turn out that way.
She got at least 10 inches of snow and we got 17 inches of snow.
I was stranded at her house.
So we made the best of it. The twins and I went out to build a snowman Thursday afternoon even though it was still snowing.
They have a 4-wheeler with a plow but it just wasn’t enough to clear the half-mile driveway quickly. Our daughter had never used the plow but figured it out. There was just too much snow and got it cleared enough to drive on after she worked on it for over three hours.
I got to my office about six hours late.
Normally I would have just gone home but I had to pick up a few things to take on an upcoming business trip. To Florida. Where I understand is warm, sunny, and snow-less!
I do have pictures of a finished sweater I will share later in the week.
Knitting In Flashes 