Guess Who Hates His New Sweater?

Here's a photo of my top-down, raglan baby sweater with shoulder saddles. I don't recommend constructing a sweater with shoulder saddles for an 8-week old. Newborns don't have the shoulders to support them, so my saddles are these weak little strips that were pretty much superfluous.

Also, this cotton/acrylic yarn (ggh Samoa) knits up unevenly. Is it lame of me to blame the yarn for how uneven my stitches look? I'm just not a great cotton knitter, I guess. And I'm pretty bad at picking up the right amount of stitches for neckbands and such. I have so much territory to cover before I achieve perfection. What an adventure it will be.

The lesson I learned from this sweater is that I should stop making things up as I go along (or knitting things of my own design) unless I want my kids to look like urchins, which I do not. I'd like people to ask me "did you knit that?" with a tone of awe in their voices instead of a tone of derision.

So, in short, my ideas = good, my skills = crude.

In other news, my sockapal2za pal Nathalie sent me my socks ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA. The fact that she lives in Australia seems so exotic to me. It's summer there! Does she knit upside-down? Does she know Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman? Do they knit? The mind reels.



Hey, whose white legs are those? Not mine.

Anyway, I love my socks. I'm wearing them right now. They were knit with self-striping yarn, which terrifies me. How do the stripes come out right? Someday I'll know. You can't see it in the photo, but there's a little metallic silver fleck in the yarn that gives it a little bit of disco.

And now I'm going to knit on my fingerless gloves as long as I can until someone (besides me) starts crying.