Chocolate...SEE'S CHOCOLATE!!!

Yummy!

For my birthday [back in August] my lovely sister [go befriend her on Ravelry!!!] gave me a 1 pound candy gift certificate to See's. I finally made my way over to See's Friday and redeemed it. Customized See's Candies. All my favorites. Oh, how I love them so! Each and every one!

So. Happy.

This weekend I did a bit of knitting. I finished the knitting and weaving on the Grey Striped Baby Sweater. I'm kinda meh about it. I'll probably just sew some plain buttons. Unless something really special jumps out at me. And I think I'm going to abandon the embroidery idea. I might just make a baby cap and call it a day.

I finished the second front on the Cabled Coat and have since moved on to the back section. It's a bit tricky since I'm making a cropped version, I'll need to make sure that it will be long enough to meet up with the fronts. I'm just kinda winging what I think is right and so far the knitter's intuition has been quiet, so I think I'm on the right track. We shall see. What's the worst that could happen? I'll have to frog and reknit? Eh, child's play...been there/done that. And the See's will help with any disappointment I might feel about it.

Shades Of Gray

Thank you to everyone who gave me some reassurance that my baby sweater giving ways was acceptable. I went through a little too much self-pity and self imposed guilt and a wonderful fellow knitter totally called shenanigans with a side of bull shiggity on my antics. So I sucked it up and started the new baby sweater during the debates.

I found the Super-natural Stripes pattern on Ravelry awhile back and during my pity party pattern perplexity, it was one I kept coming back to. Unfortunately, I didn't have any yarn in a worsted that I could use for a newborn boy. So off to Michaels I went. It just so happened that Wool-Ease was on sale for $2 a ball. What a bargain! I was hoping for blue or green, but the shades available weren't inspiring me. I did like these two shade of gray together...however, my first choice for the third shade, white, was out of stock. I grabbed a ball of natural and away I went.

When I finally got around to starting, I had a few issues. Like starting with the wrong color. Then failing to read the instructions [damn things trip me up every time!]. But I remembered to read ahead and it's been smooth sailing since then.

I wasn't 100% on the natural at first, but I think I like it with the gray. It's a little warmer than white would have been.
Then, as I was going to bed, I took off the shirt that I just so happened to be wearing and to my surprise...

Charcoal, gray and natural stripes. Hmmm. Strange and wonderful. And total confirmation that my choice was a good one.

This shirt also gave me a great idea about how to make it a little more personal.

I bought this shirt a few years back at the Gap. It just so happened that they had a screen printer there who would add a pattern of your choice to your shirt. So I added this swirl and star [go figure] pattern to my gray stripes.

Now, I'm thinking, and call me crazy, of adding little running stitch pattern at the bottom of the baby sweater. Crazy, I know! I just need to think of a cool design.

Any suggestions?