Fun with mini sweaters

Fun with mini sweaters

: sedens; January 8th, 2012

Current Mood:: accomplished

The urge to finish knitting projects is upon me--instead of starting more and more and MORE new things, this seems like a good time to knock off the final stages of some of the in-progress sweaters that have been piling up in my big basket.

This one, "Flutters," already has a home. The yarn is recycled and re-plied cashmere, and the other charmpoint is the itty-bitty flock of butterflies that are pretending to be buttons. Three cheers for the Etsy sellers who find amazing materials for me to play with!

This is "Sugarplum," knitted from a stunning handspun yarn (silk and Bluefaced Leicester wool) and again sporting vintage Czech-glass buttons, all sourced from more Etsy shops.

Too much fun, I have. And because

aoi_no_neko reminded me, here's the link: http://www.squirrelmoonknits.etsy.com

Tags: etsy, knitting

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aoi_no_neko

2012-01-08 03:08 pm (UTC)

These are both super cute! So glad you are sharing. You might want to start putting a link to your etsy shop in your sweater posts because I bet you might get a few sales that way.

Love the butterfly buttons and that sweater design!

Edited at 2012-01-08 03:08 pm (UTC)

sedens

2012-01-10 02:25 pm (UTC)

You are so right, about putting the link in--I don't know why I can't keep it in my head that the shop banner only shows up on my own LJ, not on other people's friends page. :headdesk:

Those butterfly buttons were a super-cool find!

ashbet

2012-01-08 06:19 pm (UTC)

Eeee, cuteness!! I love the shape of the "flutters" cardi, especially!

<3!

sedens

2012-01-10 02:27 pm (UTC)

I finally thought of trying some different stitches on the hem and cuffs of my bog-standard old biscuitbear cardi pattern . . . plenty of bang for very little extra mental effort, heh. That particular lace pattern is really nice; I had never used it before, but it will probably show up pretty often from now on. ;-)

ashbet

2012-01-10 10:18 pm (UTC)

I really love the effect! :D

<3!

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sedens

2012-01-10 02:28 pm (UTC)

hugs! It is so much fun--and now that I have the university admin. conditioned to the fact that I knit during meetings, it's also a major sanity-saver.

resin_angels

2012-01-09 12:38 am (UTC)

So beautiful! I always wished I'd learnt to knit from my mum every time she'd offered to teach me. I still have a lot of knitted Barbie dolls clothes from when I was a kid that she made, I treasure them now :o)

sedens

2012-01-10 02:30 pm (UTC)

My mother was a wonderful cook, but not crafty at all; she always said that the crafting gene must have come to me through my dad's Aunt Grace, who sewed and ceramicked and embroidered and did everything else imaginable. But then, I didn't really come to needlework until I was an adult--probably because none of it was going on at home. Knitting is so satisfying; there's no reason why you couldn't start now, nudge nudge!

1olly

2012-01-09 01:23 pm (UTC)

So sweet! Love them both. The butterfly buttons are great and the ruffle is CUTE!
Did not know you had an Blue Fairy girl

sedens

2012-01-10 02:33 pm (UTC)

Yup, I've had Meru there since last spring--she is just adorable. I've always loved Xiao, ever since Sher first got Jeremiah Blue and I started looking at the BF site.

That ruffly stitch pattern is incredibly easy except for the row that creates the ruffle (knit 4 together through the back loop, then knit 4 together the normal way). In a looser gauge, it wouldn't be fiddly, but I was knitting this sweater so tight that I had to use a crochet hook to muscle the working yarn through all those loops. Still, the effect was worth a little cursing and spitting in the end.

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