7.12.2006

I got comments! Thank you so much, folks. They make me very happy. It's also really encouraging. I had gotten a little discouraged on the blanket, mostly because of the cost of the Noro. I am a poor starving college student, after all. But I did finish this!
It was hard to get a good picture of it, but here it is, my Heartbreakenly Cute Baby Kimono from Mason-Dixon Knitting. The flower is out of Nikki Eptstein's Knitting Over the Edge. I'm still trying to figure the closure. I'm thinking velcro or something. Maybe snaps. A button would be ideal with the eyelets and all, but I really want the flower there. And the whole ribbon thing in the book made absolutely no sense to me, so I just kind of made it, Stephanie style. I also made up the cast-on meathod for the sleeves. I read the real way somewhere later, but my way seemed to work just fine, although the stiches were a little looser than I would have liked. I'll use the "real" way next time. That's the thing about being the only knitter I know-- I have to figure things out on my own. I've always learned very well through books and things, though. I learned to knit from a Klutz book. And I've been hooked ever since. Also in pure Stephanie style, I took the liberty of jazzing up the back of the kimono with flowers. I'd never done any kind of embroidery before. It was fun. I want to figure out some sort of lining, though, to hide the stitching on the inside.