the blue blog archives: purplicious

If you have a little girl, you've probably heard of Pinkalicious. My daughter loves Pinkalicious because she and Pinkalicious share a love of all things pink. If you don't know the stories, everything Pinkalicious owns is pink. This pretty much makes her my daughter's hero. In fact, it's hard getting my wee one to wear any other color.

So, when a old knitting friend of mine brought me the almost-finished pieces of a beautiful purple sweater that wasn't going to fit her daughter anymore but would fit mine, I knew I would have to enlist the help of Pinkalicious' friend, Purplicious to convince my girl to wear this sweater. (Purplicious likes pink too. She likes it because it is "powerful" and can change blue into purple.)

The sweater is the adorable Blossom sweater by Knitting at Knoon (knit in some fabulous purple Cascade superwash). I actually recommended this sweater to my friend years ago because its subtly lacy, slightly hippy style instantly reminded me of her daughter. Four years later and she presents me with the practically finished sweater and the same comment. And she's right - it really is my girl's style. How perfect! All I had to do was seam it up, knit the collar and ties and block those sweet little picot edges. The finally finished sweater turns out to be the exact right size and the color looks great on wee one!

But, as you can see, she is still not entirely convinced that pink isn't still prettier.

posted by alison at 10:24 am | in recycling

Comments

Purple is a good color on her. Really brings out the red in her hair. I'll have to remember that for my strawberry blonde.

Posted by: Shannon at May 10, 2010 10:28 AM

Maybe if you embellished the sweater with some embroidery done in pink? Maybe some flowers, butterflies or something else she loves in pink..

Posted by: Donna at May 10, 2010 10:46 AM

Oooh, clever Donna. I like the way you think! :)

Posted by: ALISON at May 10, 2010 11:10 AM

She looks adorable, as always. :)

Posted by: Jane at May 10, 2010 12:58 PM

Agree, that purple looks good on her (and it's nice to see some other shade of purple on a little girl).

Posted by: Amy at May 10, 2010 2:35 PM

Too cute! Love the triple play - book, balloon and purple sweater. Great pictures!

Posted by: Jennifer at May 10, 2010 3:18 PM

I just made a quilt in pink and purple for my niece's Purplicious 5th birthday. Had to still have some pink to make it work. Your daughter is adorable!

Posted by: rhonda at May 10, 2010 3:39 PM

Love that sweater...she looks adorable in it! My 3 yr old daughter does love pink but will wear other colours too. The trick is getting her to wear something seasonally appropriate!

Posted by: Heather L at May 10, 2010 4:03 PM

Pink-a-boo! My little girl loves Pinkalicious too (and Olivia, and Fancy Nancy...)

The sweater is splendid (that's a fancy word for GREAT.)

Posted by: suzanne at May 10, 2010 4:54 PM

That is absolutely adorable. Purple is my favorite color with pink a close second. Love that pattern - I'll have to see if I have enough orange yarn (an early favorite of my granddaughter) to make that sweater. If not, I'm pretty sure I have enough pink (her other favorite color). I'll have to check out those books. now that the grands live 2300 miles away, I like to keep in touch by sending them books.

Posted by: Donna at May 10, 2010 6:03 PM

So cute!

Posted by: Suzanne at May 10, 2010 6:35 PM

She looks great in purple, makes her eyes look purpley blue!

Posted by: Christine Haack at May 10, 2010 6:50 PM

Fantastic and Happy Birthday Wee.

the color does become her.

Posted by: Orli at May 11, 2010 9:21 AM

Cute!!!

Posted by: Leslie at May 11, 2010 10:21 AM

That is one cute sweater!

Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport at May 11, 2010 12:56 PM

Your wee one has the cutest facial expressions!

Posted by: Seanna Lea at May 11, 2010 3:15 PM

I've got a Pinkalicious, too, turning five next week. And all the hand-me-downs from Wee C are blue!

Posted by: maggi at May 11, 2010 5:11 PM

See, as soon as I could talk, I went on a pink strike. I refused to wear pink until well into my 20s. So I think this is hysterical. My daughter (about wee one's age) likes pink and purple, but her favorite colors are brown, green and orange. Her favorite pink item is a John Deere hat.

Posted by: racherin at May 12, 2010 6:10 AM

That girl looks amazing in purple!

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Posted by: ultrasound technician at May 14, 2010 4:05 AM

You lucky duck! We are all aobut pinkalicious at our house too! I love the sweater and the pattern I keep thinking I will make an adult-sized one, but I haven't yet, it's on the list : ) The sweater looks awesome on her!

Posted by: Cynthia at June 3, 2010 3:19 PM