I'm starting another big project for him today - he's so cute I can't resist making him stuff. Plus it's football season again so Brad is glued to our new tv these days.
He is already laughing about how I'll be up late the night before I want to give it to him panicking and scrambling to get it done. I don't even bother to deny it anymore.
This time I'm attempting my first sweater and it's going to be off the hook cute: a little Kurt Cobain sweater!
Here's the picture from the pattern.
I went to my favourite yarn shop yesterday and had one of the ladies help me out. I couldn't even figure out which needle size to use. Turns out it's super small. I had to buy new needles - I usually knit on 4.5mm needles. These are 3.25mm. It will take forever.I'm stoked.
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Awesome! I can't wait to see how it turns out.
I once tried to knit a pair of socks on 3 mm needled. They never got finished although I was using this really neat self-striping wool. Maybe I should try to revive them.
I feel like you and Christielli would be really good friends in real life!
Lol! Tiny needles do take a while but the pattern looks simple enough that you'll be able to get a rhythm... Plus, there's the advantage of knitting for someone smaller than yourself. Nephew-sweaters take much less time than auntie-sweaters. :-)
Good luck! Glad to see you're influencing his musical tastes as any good aunt would.
Yeah, I figured a good first sweater would be a little one! the start is actually kind of hard - all the special stitches and increasing, lots of counting stitches but i'm hoping like you say I will hit a rhythm and it will get easier. i'll post progress photos.
I haven't tried socks yet - that hell....so intimidating!
I've never finished a sweater before. (Actually, wait-- that's not true. I knit a sweater for myself, never wore it, and then frogged the hell out of it AND donated the yarn.) Good luck!
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