Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Unbelievably fast baby sweater set
Below is a baby sweater and hat set called "Aunt Jen's," available at http://www.sandiangels.com/pattern-page.html. It's super-fast -- I started this at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, and had all but one sleeve done by 7:00 last night, with time out to ferry kids around, make dinner, and clean the kitchen. Used a G hook and some Caron Cuddle Soft from a stash donated by my mother-in-law. (The worsted-weight acrylic became shelter pet blankets but I didn't know what else to do with baby yarn except make baby stuff.)
In a strange stroke of serendipity (and this story will eventually be related to this sweater), my third-grade kid joined a Lego robotics team from another elementary school because the parent sponsors at our own school want to limit participation to the grades that their kids are in. (Last year, only fourth and fifth could join; this year, only fifth.) So we're competing on behalf of a school that we don't go to with kids we barely know, and when I picked him up last week, it turns out that a woman who I was passing friends with in the parking lot of our mutual preschool has a kid on the same team (I couldn't have picked her kid out of a lineup because I hadn't seen him since he was four), AND she's pregnant with a girl, so even though she'll be baffled that someone she barely knows anymore has made 2/3 of a layette for her, she's getting this today.
In a strange stroke of serendipity (and this story will eventually be related to this sweater), my third-grade kid joined a Lego robotics team from another elementary school because the parent sponsors at our own school want to limit participation to the grades that their kids are in. (Last year, only fourth and fifth could join; this year, only fifth.) So we're competing on behalf of a school that we don't go to with kids we barely know, and when I picked him up last week, it turns out that a woman who I was passing friends with in the parking lot of our mutual preschool has a kid on the same team (I couldn't have picked her kid out of a lineup because I hadn't seen him since he was four), AND she's pregnant with a girl, so even though she'll be baffled that someone she barely knows anymore has made 2/3 of a layette for her, she's getting this today.
