Finally...

... I have something to show you.

I have been quite busy over the last few weeks, reading, thinking, knitting... The due date is fast approaching and I want to do as much as I can before the baby's born. Being this pregnant has one advantage - I cannot sleep much and so I work. And one disadvantage - I am so tired most of the time so whenever I do work, everything takes very long.

But anyway.

This is the official picture of the EZ February Baby Sweater:


Like I said, it turned out ok. Considering it was my first ever lace project, I am happy. I am not very happy with the yarn I used but it was in my stash and I wanted to use it for something eventually so why not this.

Next, I finished designing the Wraparound. This is the 0-3months size.


It turned out very well, exactly as I envisioned it. Knitting it was a pleasure, I run into no problems at all and I hope that will be the case for whoever decides to knit it as well. I really like this simple, plain design, something that you can either leave as it is or you can embellish it with buttons/flowers/embroidery.
Sometimes I think maybe I should not knit everything so plain. But I just don't want to impose my ideas of prettiness upon other people. Keeping the first knit plain encourages the knitters to add their own personal touches to it. At least that's how I see it. But maybe I'm wrong. I would appreciate YOUR input on this.

After spending a good amount of time in my local J.Lewis, I finally chose these shell buttons. You can call this my personal touch. I didn't want the buttons to be too plain, white or cream-colored, nor too bright. I love the shell buttons, I think they make the sweater special.


I'm writing the pattern down at the moment, then I will size it and send it to test knitters. I don't think it will be published for another few weeks, which is a shame, because I really want to see how others knitted it.

And what's currently on my needles? Stay tuned...