Knitters Intuition

It's funny, when I was knitting this I had this feeling it was a baby sweater, and that first thing was a sleeve. So I was really confused about this part in the pattern that said knit the 22 stitches from the other side... I was thinking it was the first 22 stitches that I had put on a stitchholder. (I feel better that someone else made the same mistake, it's not just me.) I should have just gone with my gut feeling, but without seeing the rest of the pattern, I figured I would just keep going blindly along.

Then I saw the instructions for yesterday morning, and I was pretty sure I was right with this baby sweater thing. I google around and found something very similar that was a baby sweater, and resolved to try doing the 2nd 22 stitches in from the other side as a sleeve. Then when I checked my email at lunchtime, sure enough, someone on the list had come up with the answer being a baby sweater, and here is the original pattern.

Looks much better now, doesn't it?


It used 82 g. of stash yarn which brings me up to 5 FO's, 226 g. stash yarn used this year.

Ingi's friends/ex-bandmates are having a baby this summer, so I may give it to them as a gift. I am really happy with how the sweater came out, and I think I will make this for a baby gift in the future when I need one. It was quick to knit and fun. I haven't decided if I will put buttons or a ribbon to close it.

I love my library. I went there to ask them to borrow No Sheep For You (for tips for knitting for my allergic-to-wool husband) from another library. They said with a new book like that, they would just buy it. So they bought it for me, and I can borrow it when it comes in. I'll be the very first person to borrow it, isn't that so cool?