Flagel Knitting Files

I have now knit one final Sunnyside Baby Cardigan  but it wasn't exactly planned at the outset.  My new mantra is if you buy it you have to use it.  So when I purchased a beautiful white pearlized Plymouth cotton yarn from SteveBe's a couple of weeks ago I wanted to be sure to make the baby sweater pattern that came with it. I started it while I was still away, but after following the pattern as it was written, I found the knit to be too loose for my taste.  Apparently I am developing a sort of attitude about how I want a knit fabric to look.  The fabric that lets a great deal of sunlight through it is not the type of fabric I enjoy for a sweater.  So before I got very far with the Plymouth pattern it was frogged.  That left me with yarn, a desire to use it and a need to locate a pattern.  Since the Sunnyside pattern was with me, I just started it using the much thicker Plymouth yarn and needles that were several sizes smaller than what was reco...

The right sleeve was completed last evening and this morning the buttons sewn on.  Then my Sunnyside took a quick plunge and an ever so brief time in the dryer and then viola, Sunnyside is complete. Tenacity on the left and the fully complete Sunnyside on the right As I continue to do some much needed spring cleaning, I found my Pantone - 35 Inspirational Color Palettes book.  In it I found a set of colours called City Haze.  It is described this way:   Silvered skyscrapers and misty parks suggest a cosmopolitan palette of smoky tones.  Use these colors to compose a timeless and elegant daytime look, or a living room designed for witty conversation and evening entertaining.   Look how closely the colours from my Sunnyside match up with the four colours of City Haze.  BTW the colours from left to right are Polished Gray (Pantone Cool Gray 9), City Sky (Pantone Cool Gray 3), Spring Haze (Pantone 4545) and Early Olive (Pantone 451).  The olive ...

This is a second  Sunnyside  Tenacity Baby Cardigan .   (If you need to know the background about this name change, click on the link.) Sunnyside Baby Cardigan v.2 The first attempt is not yet finished for a reason.  As I neared completing it, it became clear the first version would not fit a 6-12 month old baby, it was far too small for that age.  In my own defense, there was no gauge given in the instructions (a free pattern sometimes leaves a few details out).  It simply called for sock weight yarn and that's what I used.  However, my sock yarn apparently wasn't as thick as the yarn used by the designer.  So Dack and Nicole will get that attempt and will have a newborn-sized sweater for their upcoming newborn.  After all the tenacity I put into that first attempt, I was determined to turn this lemon into lemonade.  You'll see it when it is done. With newly acquired information about gauge I started another Sunnyside (I ca...

About a month ago my friend from Minneapolis, Nancy, asked me to make a baby sweater for friends who are expecting a newcomer in September.  I looked at this as a great opportunity to try something new in the baby sweater world.  The gender is unknown, the sweater should be fully washable and made in the 6 to 12 month size.  Over the years Nancy has housed me frequently when I've visited the Twin Cities.  In fact she went so far as to let me take over her kitchen for an entire week to make my son's wedding cake in 2009.  So this request was a very easy yes for me. Nancy and I agreed this designed called the Sunnyside Baby Cardigan was perfect. I'm making the cabled model on the right.  Tanis Lavallee from Tanis Fiber Arts designed the pattern.  You can find it here  on Ravelry for free.  It is not a difficult thing to knit.  One does start at the neck and the entire shoulders and neckline area are knit at once.  (What's not s...