finally

When making things for myself, my most often muttered phrase is 'good enough'.   Not that I do things half assed, but rather I realize that I'm knitting/sewing/etc  for fun and most details won't be noticed anyway.   This project was the opposite.  I really wanted it to be right because it is for someone else,  a co-worker, who I don't know that well.   I was also doing my usual thing of taking a free pattern of the internet, which sometimes have errors anyway, using different gauge yarn and then tweaking them even further.  I couldn't get the sizing right on this pattern.  The first sweater was too big, the next had the armholes off center making the front smaller than the back, the third was a little big, finally on the fourth sweater I muttered 'good enough' so many times that I've actually finished it.   I stayed up way late last night doing it, but I had to since the baby shower is today.  I could've given her one bootie today and the other one on monday, but one bootie doesn't take that long and I'll just have another cup of coffee, or three, today.

I didn't want to worry about uneven button holes so I knitted the button band plain, sewed ribbon on the inside (for extra support), and pounded some snaps on.

During a space of frustration between two of the sweater iterations, I also made a hat, but it is so small that a friend is now calling it a grapefruit cozy.

The first bootie string*  came out so long that it made me laugh and I left it long for the picture.  I did cut it down before wrapping the present though. 

I'll put all the knitty gritty details with the photo in the crafty section.

*bootie string?   that just makes me giggle.  but what else do you call it?   bootie tie? 

**Also spell check is telling me it should be either booties or booty.   I just couldn't write booty though, that makes me think of pirate booty.  Or Gwen Stefani in her new video.  Neither one is an image I wanted to convey in this post. 

Comments

[Vicki]

There's no such word as bootie?? That's weird. Despite the issues, they're adorable. The yarn is great.

[maeve]

perhaps spell-check would have accepted "boo-tay" ? ;)

[stacey]

I'm gonna pretend you didn't just insult Gwen Stefani there. Hee hee. I LOVE that song.

[Anne Marie]

Awww! Baby's first bootie string :)
The little set is adorable. I do the same thing, where I short change myself and accept flaws, but when I make something for someone else it has to be PERFECT. It should really be the opposite.