Sunday 5 November 2017

I made a sweater!

Let's get the other news out of the way first.



We got a swing set.  Game changer.  Independent play!  Well it was for the first day until J realised that she could ask me to push her on the swing and now I'm back to where I started.  If I'm honest the squeals of joy (from her, not me) do make it all worthwhile.





We have tiny peaches!



We have the world's most hopeless hunter.  Which I am 100% ok with...



Because we recently had a resident mother duck with some very brand new ducklings.

We've had the most exhausting revolving door of illness with the girls.  I don't know if they're actually sick anymore.  I think the coughs are just part of their personalities now.

Now that's out of the way, onto the whole point of this post - which you may have guessed from the title.

I made a sweater!  I knitted it with my very own hands!  It took hours and hours.  And, most importantly, it fits over my head.

Behold:


Please forgive the poorly-lit late night self-timer photoshoot.  A fashion blogger I am not.



It's pretty lumpy and bumpy, and you can see where I added in a new ball of yarn, and one sleeve is definitely longer than the other, but to say I am proud would be an understatement.




It was surprisingly easy because the pattern came with a series of video tutorials to knit along with.

If you're similarly deranged and would like to waste hours of your life creating a garment of mediocre quality (not the pattern's fault, I hasten to add), the pattern I used was:
The Everyday Raglan by Sheep & Stitch




Since making this sweater, I've now started a child's size raglan for J and a sweet little cardigan for A.  It's all very rewarding.

Made anything with your very own hands lately?





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