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Monday, July 5, 2010

Pea Pod Knittsie

Here's what I do when I avoid unpacking boxes labeled "JUNK." Yes, my children packed quite a few of those...

Last night I finally created my auction donation to the school. A former colleague & his wife welcomed their first baby in May & they won this custom-item at the auction. The color is a light green. I used organic Classic O~Wool. I'm still looking for the perfect buttons.

I've always loved the Pea Pod Baby Set (Ravelry pattern link), which is unfortunately no longer available at the Interweave website, but I strongly dislike needing to sew things up, so I decided to tweak it and make it into a bottom-up Raglan construction minus the neck-edging.

The pieces before joining.

It was my first top-up Raglan & the first few rows were quite tricky!

But eventually I could see that it was gonna work out.

And it did. Done minus buttons.

4 comments:

emerson-j said...

wooshka that looked like hard work, beautiful tho and i love the colour! i joined up to the ravelry site they have some cool patterns.

W-S Wanderings said...

So beautiful. I love the unique asymmetry of it.

paula said...

BEAUIFUL . . .absolutely BEAUTIFUL ! ! ! !

Jenny said...

Wow, your knitting is amazing. I would have no idea how to make something as beautiful as that!