Hello! We got home from our second family reunion of the summer, but since I have yet to sort through those pictures, I’m sharing a little project I made in June. This is the tiniest sweater I’ve ever made, and I think it’s so cute! One of Bracken’s best friends had a birthday and I decided to make this for her because she has a very special friend (of the stuffed animal variety) who goes along with her most places. I thought her friend might appreciate a warm sweater on occasion, and I chose the color because her favorite color is orange. It was different for me to knit in a color this bright because I tend to gravitate towards more subtle hues, but this yarn was so much fun to knit with and I liked changing things up.

I picked up the yarn at Cozy, in Eugene. The yarn is Knitted Wit (Big Sky Worsted), and I love the name of the colorway- Glazed Over Carrots. (I found it challenging to capture the orange color with my camera, it just didn’t look like the same orange I was looking at in real life, but I placed a bundle of carrots from the farmer’s market next to it, which might have helped a little.) The pattern I used for the little sweater was Chloe’s Cardigan by Susan B. Anderson. I made one modification, rather than knit i-cords for tying up the front, I made a buttonhole and then sewed on a small button that Jeff made in black walnut wood. Not everything I knit turns out the size I intend it to (I usually only knit a gauge swatch first for large sweaters and projects of that nature), but the good news is that that wee sweater fit perfectly!

P.S. Another gift brought along that day… children make the sweetest vases of flowers.