Saturday I had a rare solo shopping outing to Fibre Space. My plan was to pick up the pattern and yarn to participate in Susan B. Anderson's upcoming knit-along for the Camp Hoodie. I'll admit that the original pattern is a bit wild for my taste but she did a beautifully modified version with a Fair Isle design that I just love. However, once I looked at the pattern and did some calculations, I decided that I just wasn't sure that I would get $140 worth of wear out of a vest. I'm much more of a cardigan girl myself.
But, don't think for a second that I left empty handed. Quite the opposite. I managed to spend enough money to fill up my Fiber Space frequent customer card and got myself a free t-shirt. My husband seemed less pleased about that than I did. :)
Here's what I brought home with me.
I bought three hanks of Spud and Chloe Outer in colorway Bubble to make the Oversized Toddler Sweater for Sammy. I'm excited to get started on this project sometime this week. I also bought a great book Getting Started Knitting Socks by Ann Budd. It's really a great book that I would highly recommend to other sock virgins like myself. It explains sock construction in extreme detail and I am sure it will be a go to reference book for me. I'll be using it to knit up the three beautiful hanks of sock yarn I picked up as well.
I also managed to knit up some super cute mittens for Sammy this weekend.
The pattern is the Way Basic Toddler Mittens and honestly, they really were. The pattern was fairly easy to follow and it was a very quick knit. These may be my new go to baby knit with a matching hat for winter babies.
That's all the news from here. Back to work tomorrow...THANK YOU GOD! :)
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