I present, the Big Digger Sweater:
Yes. It is THAT cute. Now - the sizing on this sweater was a little wacky to me - it said to fit a 22 inch chest, you would be knitting a 29 inch sweater. It just looked HUGE to me. So I ended up ripping out, and casting on enough so that the finished sweater is about 26 inches across - much more reasonable for the 2 year old that I have in mind.
Only thing is - when I re-sized it - I kind of forgot to center the digger chart on the front.... so it's a little offset. Aaron assures me that it just looks like the digger is driving onto the front.
Here is a close up of the actual digger. I really suck at embellishing my knitting - so it was a big feat for me to add this embroidery. I would say it took me almost as long to do all the finishing as it did to knit the pieces - but totally worth it:
Pattern: Big Digger Sweater (rav link)
Yarn: Dale of Norway, Faulk. 4 Balls of the navy, one each of the orange, green and blue.
OK - back to Christmas knitting!
6 comments:
The sweater is so cute! I agree, it does look like the Cat is driving onto the front.
adorable! I agree w/ aaron, it doesn't matter if it's not centered. and your hoodie is awesome! i looked at that yarn once, but was frightened by the price tag.
and you are absolutely on my list! I will have plenty of time after eric flies back.
i can not believe your ticker says 3 weeks and some days!! holy cow... how exciting! i'm sure you will get the crib before i get my car. ha! your baby may be going to kindergarten before i get my car.
Bloody brilliant! And it has what my camera-nut boss would call great composition. (First rule of photography, per my boss: never put your subject dead center.)
That is too cute!
I like the one you felted too - it's great.
That is really adorable - great job!
This is absolutely stinkin' cute, Cece! LOVE it!
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