It's finished.
My first baby sweater:
It's far from perfect, but it's done and functional. I'm going to redo the sad, bushy pom-pom with Grandma's pom-pom maker, but otherwise it is good to go.
The hat was the Umbilcal Cord Hat from Stitch-n-Bitch, (if you're curious you can go here and flip until you see a baby hat) except it seemed to cry for a nice, fat, pom-pom on the top instead of the i-cord like the one in the pattern. The top of that hat was my first run with double-pointed needles, too.
After I finished the hat, I still had a bunch of yarn that I got back from my first run at trying to knit, about four years ago. So I decided that the hat cried for a matching sweater. I found the Baby Yoda Sweater pattern (The link disappeared) and it looked doable. I didn't have too many problems until I got ready to sew it together. Then I learned that seams are hard. I labored through the Stitch-n-Bitch directions, and even though the body was more or less nice and neat, my seams looked awful. This called for a trip to Grandma's.
She said that it doesn't really matter how you do the seams, as long as you go the same direction into the same part of the stitch. "It'll look like you did a pattern," she said. So I gave up trying to follow directions, and it still isn't anywhere near perfect but it holds together without gaping holes, and I'll take that. (However, I would like to get better at sewing seams before I take on a bigger project - David wants a 70's fisherman's sweater, like one his dad passed down to him back in high school. I told him to give me a year or two and I'd try.) I think part of the reason they look so sloppy is that my edge stitches were pretty loose so I couldn't get an even tension while I was trying to sew it up. The inside seams look like a trainwreck, so if you happen to be holding my baby and he's wearing this sweater, don't look on the inside, okay?
It's far from perfect, but it's done and functional. I'm going to redo the sad, bushy pom-pom with Grandma's pom-pom maker, but otherwise it is good to go.
The hat was the Umbilcal Cord Hat from Stitch-n-Bitch, (if you're curious you can go here and flip until you see a baby hat) except it seemed to cry for a nice, fat, pom-pom on the top instead of the i-cord like the one in the pattern. The top of that hat was my first run with double-pointed needles, too.
After I finished the hat, I still had a bunch of yarn that I got back from my first run at trying to knit, about four years ago. So I decided that the hat cried for a matching sweater. I found the Baby Yoda Sweater pattern (The link disappeared) and it looked doable. I didn't have too many problems until I got ready to sew it together. Then I learned that seams are hard. I labored through the Stitch-n-Bitch directions, and even though the body was more or less nice and neat, my seams looked awful. This called for a trip to Grandma's.
She said that it doesn't really matter how you do the seams, as long as you go the same direction into the same part of the stitch. "It'll look like you did a pattern," she said. So I gave up trying to follow directions, and it still isn't anywhere near perfect but it holds together without gaping holes, and I'll take that. (However, I would like to get better at sewing seams before I take on a bigger project - David wants a 70's fisherman's sweater, like one his dad passed down to him back in high school. I told him to give me a year or two and I'd try.) I think part of the reason they look so sloppy is that my edge stitches were pretty loose so I couldn't get an even tension while I was trying to sew it up. The inside seams look like a trainwreck, so if you happen to be holding my baby and he's wearing this sweater, don't look on the inside, okay?