It is another long weekend here in British Columbia. Today's BC Day which seems to commemorate two things: 1) recognizing the pioneers of British Columbia and 2) the passing of an Act by the Parliament of the UK which changed British Columbia from a colony. I think people just use it as one last fling of summer and get outside by camping, hiking and spending time next to water. (Does it seem like we have a lot of three-day weekends in BC in the summer? Yes, it does for me too.)
As you can see I've dressed it up a bit. The red buttons are mimicked by the spider webs I learned to make last weekend. Random placement of the red, yellow and blue circles help to keep this sweater whimsical, or at least that's what I'm trying to achieve by adding them. The piece de resistance is the red edging. This is my own contribution to the pattern and inspired by the yarn. I simply single crocheted around all the edges. By doing so, the yoke or flap has now become quite prominent.
I do like its unique design. Undue all four buttons and you have a large space within which to get the baby's head and once that far the arms will follow. I find the easier a baby sweater is to button up the better; babies tend to be squirmy when it comes to getting dressed.
As I said before this pattern was purchased from The Yarn Garden in Gig Harbor, Washington. The store doesn't seem to have much of a web present and it holds the copyright for this pattern so that perhaps explains why I haven't seen anything coming close to this design anywhere else.
Now on to finishing some of those abandoned projects. After I wrote about my problem with multiple projectitist I started searching throughout my storage room to find all the projects that had been started and then left on their own before completion. I now know why I didn't list all of them, there are far too many for me to remember. Thus I do need to finish some of these items up before I move on to yet another new piece. Oh, that limiting of freedom to choose; it is the price I'll have to pay for not finishing what I've started before. Here's my sad face regarding this turn of events. :-(
So with this extra day I worked on completing the flapped Blossom Sweater. Here it is all done up (sans blocking).
As you can see I've dressed it up a bit. The red buttons are mimicked by the spider webs I learned to make last weekend. Random placement of the red, yellow and blue circles help to keep this sweater whimsical, or at least that's what I'm trying to achieve by adding them. The piece de resistance is the red edging. This is my own contribution to the pattern and inspired by the yarn. I simply single crocheted around all the edges. By doing so, the yoke or flap has now become quite prominent.
I do like its unique design. Undue all four buttons and you have a large space within which to get the baby's head and once that far the arms will follow. I find the easier a baby sweater is to button up the better; babies tend to be squirmy when it comes to getting dressed.
As I said before this pattern was purchased from The Yarn Garden in Gig Harbor, Washington. The store doesn't seem to have much of a web present and it holds the copyright for this pattern so that perhaps explains why I haven't seen anything coming close to this design anywhere else.
Now on to finishing some of those abandoned projects. After I wrote about my problem with multiple projectitist I started searching throughout my storage room to find all the projects that had been started and then left on their own before completion. I now know why I didn't list all of them, there are far too many for me to remember. Thus I do need to finish some of these items up before I move on to yet another new piece. Oh, that limiting of freedom to choose; it is the price I'll have to pay for not finishing what I've started before. Here's my sad face regarding this turn of events. :-(
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