the blue blog archives: more stripes, more fun

And although it's not really that bad when I'm knitting this little Mandarin Petit sweater for wee and I find I can somehow manage to have seven balls of yarn hanging off the thing and still knit without losing my mind, as soon as I take a break from it, it is so hard for me to get myself to pick it up again. Because it's slow. Reorganizing all those balls after every one or two rounds is so painfully, motivation-killingly slow. In two knitting sessions, I've only made it about halfway up the first sleeve (which I have started calling the second-to-last sleeve in an effort to convince myself that this is almost over!). But it's so pretty when it's all done. I can't stop now, right? Especially when this sweater has already sat around waiting three years to be finished. Ugh, I fear I am going to have to say something New Year's-y like "this is the year that I finish this sweater!" to get me to actually do it.

At least I am encouraged by seeing how much wee likes the sweater. She laid down next to it while I was taking the picture and started to rub the edge like she does with her blankie. (Can you see blankie and dolly in the picture? And her carrot tattoo too!) She's so cute. For her, I can make more stripes. For her, I will try to have more fun.

posted by alison at 12:59 pm | in baby chic

Comments

Whoo-hoo, go Alison! Yee-haw! Look at those FUN stripes! Look at your darling girl *loving* those fun stripes! If she looks that cute lying next to the stripes, just think how cute she's going to look actually wearing them!

There. I hope that cheerleading was helpful. ;-D

Posted by: Aldona at January 7, 2010 1:29 PM

I love those colors. The stripes are gorgeous so keep on keeping on!

Posted by: Chancy at January 7, 2010 3:35 PM

Once, I thought about knitting some socks with the helical stripes... the kind where you knit one color on each of your four dpns? I decided that the only way I could bear to do this would be to have the yarn on a lazy susan (or maybe in plastic cups taped to a lazy susan), so I could unwind it with my foot as I went along. I can't imagine reorganizing the balls by hand!

Posted by: Kat at January 7, 2010 4:33 PM

I love this sweater! It is so cute, and wee one will look so adorable in it. You can do it.

Posted by: Sallie at January 7, 2010 5:01 PM

Love the tripes (& the carrot tat).

Posted by: Donna at January 7, 2010 7:14 PM

That's a lot of little balls. Maybe if you tied the balls together then you could get a little less twisting?

Posted by: Seanna Lea at January 7, 2010 8:36 PM

so i'm wondering, i've never done it so i don't know, when you knit stripes in the round, where do the carried up yarn pieces go? do you cut them at the end of each stripe? i've never knit in the round and all the stripes are hard for me to picture doing that way...it's a very pretty pattern but not one i'd be comfortable attempting, at least not in the round...

Posted by: Jamie at January 19, 2010 4:29 AM