Jumpsuit

The jumpsuit I started in August is now finished. It came out very nice, the transitions from knitting with dpn's almost went away when I washed it.



Of course I couldn't help but modify a bit... so the top part, which was supposed to be knitted back and forth and sewn together, is just knitted in the round. I know, I had to purl every other round to get garter stitch, but it meant no sewing :) To hide the transition, I did a fake seam in each side, knitting that stitch every other round and slipping it every other. Finally, added some cute, asian-looking buttons from Fandango:

Warm Set for Tadpole

I've started knitting a set of clothing to keep the little Tadpole warm when it comes out i February. I was allowed to use some gorgeous yarn from my sister's stash, Blue Sky Alpacas Alpaca & Silk. I know, the Tadpole will probably puke on it immediately and it's handwash only. But it's so soft. A entirely decent thing to wear when you have never been encumbered with clothing before.

The pattern is from Drops, here it is in English og her er det på dansk. The Danish version actually says it will look good on a little girl, but I think it is unisex enough when knitted in green:


The legs are knitted separately in the round, which probably makes good sense, I'm sure the pattern would look bad sewn together. But it is quite problematic to put the legs together. OK, the pattern says to knit 2 cm back and forth to make it easier, but it doesn't make it easy. Also, a circular needle that would be small enough for this number of stitches would be annoyingly short to knit with, so I had to continue with dpn's after putting the legs together. But because the legs were pulling in each opposite directions, there are some ugly transitions although I pulled all stitches really tight. Oh well, here's to hoping it goes away when washed.