Recipient: Stitches from the Heart
Completed: March, 2007
All Seasons Yarn / 100% acrylic
Color No. E1-002 - Ice Sherbert
Needles: US 7
A little over three years ago I purchase a very large ball of pink yarn. My intent was to use it both as practice yarn and to create items for charitable donation. In 2004, I knit my first seamed garment with it.
Since that time I haven’t done a whole lot with it, but since I vowed to do more charitable knitting this year, I found some patterns, broke out the big ball, and got to work.
The first piece was the infamous Five Hour Baby Sweater. If you’ve never heard of this pattern, you’re either not a knitter or you live in seclusion and lack Internet connectivity. This pattern and its many variants abound on Web sites and blogs everywhere. Just Google it - you’ll see. I’ll wait.
Although the pattern lives up to its reputation (that is to say, mere mortal knitters cannot finish this in five hours; it took me over six), it is a quick and easy pattern: it’s knit top-down as a single piece, the stitch patterns are very basic, and the only seaming to be done is on the sleeves under the arms. Some aren’t fond of the yoke neck, but I think it’s charming.
Next, I wanted to try my hand at this baby bonnet pattern I’d inadvertently found when searching for Totoro-related sites. My version is plain, sans ears and face embellishment, but it’s still pretty cute. This yarn is thicker than the sport-weight called for in this pattern so the resulting bonnet is a bit on the large side, but it still should be usable for toddlers.
Recipient: Royalwood Care Center
