The puppy dog sweater from Roo Designs is underway for reals! After making a swatch of the intarsia design with students in my knitting class, I discovered that a friend will be having a baby boy, soooo....

A little navy blue Phildar superwash and some leftovers from the stash and I was off! The back knit up in a flash. Some of the Roo sweaters have a placket in the back for the smaller, baby sizes but the puppy dog sweater did not. I think it makes the sweater much more practical to have a placket, so I sort of made one up (and now that I look at it, I definitely made one shoulder longer than the other - doh! - I'll fix that later...). I charged ahead to the front, eager to start the puppy, but the white yarn I'd pulled from my stash wasn't quite white enough. Poor puppy will be on hold until I can get into the closet where the deep stash is located and scrounge up a better white.

Stay, puppy, stay. Good boy.

I just had the pleasure of teaching a new class at my lys: an intarsia sweater from Roo Designs. These designs are so adorable!

They have nearly forty fun motifs, each paired with different neck, edge and sleeve details that make the sweaters even cuter. In our class we had two puppies, a kitty, a truck, a hippo and a penguin. And they all came out great!

This was my sample swatch. I had wee one come in to the store to look through the designs and choose one I would make for her. She gasped when she saw the pretty flowers, then changed her inscrutable little three year-old mind and asked for a tractor. Somehow I managed to direct her away from the tractor and we were able to settle on the puppy. "But," she insisted, "in pink." "With pink ears." "And a pink face." Of course. For class, however, I used leftover blues and greens from my snowflake hat. Looove those big blue ears!

Wee will most likely get her pink puppy on a skirt, since she's so into skirts right now. Oooh, I wish they had a poodle!