Black Sheep

Diversions

April 14th, 2005

I took a break over the weekend from both Lucky Clover and BBBB to make Opptuna, an adorable baby pullover from CTH II. I have wanted to make this since I saw that adorable baby in the picture. I just thought I would make it for my own baby that I plan to have someday. It turns out that the old intuition was cranking away because my SIL is pregnant (hence all of the baby knits around here). So I decided to buy some more Plymouth Encore and knit this up for my new niece, who will arrive in August sometime. Heh heh. I can’t believe my husband’s bad ass ex-skate punk little brother is going to have a girl . Makes me smile whenever I think about it.

I chose this really saccharine-sweet colorway. Doesn’t it look like frosting? (this picture is washed-out. Hopefully my next pic of this will be better). It’s a little too sweet for my taste, but nice for a little baby girl. I was hoping I would have it done by now but, again, that old job just keeps getting in the way of my knitting! I am hoping to get it done by this weekend and then I will knit some baby booties to match. Then I will finish BBBB because the shower is May 7th. Then I will be free from all of this baby knitting and I can move on to me knitting.

Speaking of me knitting, I have a new addition to my yarn stash, as well as my book collection. I saw ms. Harlot’s book on the shelf at my lys and couldn’t resist buying it. And while I was at it why not pick up some silk garden, too? I had a good excuse…I haven’t really been able to find this colorway online and my lys had it so I figured I should buy it on the spot or else I might lose my chance….or something like that. So this will eventually become Gloria from Noro Knits. But more on that later.

Entry Filed under: Yarn Stash, baby things, opptuna