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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