Wow! An actual sweater!

Can you imagine?  I've finally finished a sweater for DD in the FN (Frozen Northland).  Took me long enough.  Actually I finished it a few weeks ago, tried it on (what fits DD will fit me, except in length) and the sleeves were way too tight.  I have no idea why I did this, but they went back to the frog pond and I made them wider.  Since I pick up my sleeves from the armhole and work them down, this isn't a major rehaul.  I just had to make sure that the underarm stitches, which are live, are not dropped in the frogging.  What took much longer was that the Little Guy had a sock crisis, and I had to churn out a bunch of socks.  So....here's a lace sweater. (if she doesn't like it, I'll take it)

The yarn is Palette (Knit Picks), which I love to work in.  Very soft yarn with no merino.  So it wears rather well.  Size 3 needles, worked in the round from bottom up.  Separated at the armhole, and worked back and forth until the shoulder. Front, of course, had neck opening worked. Joined the fronts and back, picked up the armhole stitches and worked down (twice, sigh).  Gave it a gentle wash on Fri, and here it is, ready to be mailed out.  Stitch pattern is from one of my lace books, but I tossed the copy, so I don't know where I found it.  But it's very simple and a nice break from the endless stockinette.

And then, just because I like making helix socks, one more pair for the Little Guy.  3 different yarns worked in a helical pattern.  Mindlessly easy, although you constantly have to untwist the yarns.

The big ball is a turquoise that I dyed some years ago.  I don't think that there is nylon in this yarn, so I didn't use it where there would be stress.  Bottom left is some leftover from who-knows-what, and the bottom right was used to make these socks from the last posting.

So here are the new socks with these 3 yarns.

Here are the two socks, the first worked only in that yarn, and the second with the 3 yarns.

Isn't that fun?  This is a great way to use up leftovers, although I now have leftovers of my leftovers.  It never ends.

Two more

The next 2 pairs of Little Kid socks. 

That's pretty much it!  I started another pair of Helical Socks for him, but I'm not rushing through it.  I need a break from non-stop plain vanilla sock knitting.