Another FO!

I'm just as shocked as you are. Not only did I knit another of those neck-cowl things to keep for myself but I also made a bub's smock dress designed to become a top as the child grows, using a vintage pattern I picked up on the way through country Victoria at Christmas time. I need to work on my stitching, but I think the prototype is pretty cute. Now I just need someone with little girls to see what age it fits....Carla, this may be a job for you! I love the back - so cute:

The pattern, which was put out in the 60's, shows it being worn as a baby dress with tights or little bloomers, or as a toddler top with shorts. I don't have kids, so I can't say, but I'm thinking the bloomers option is pretty outdated now. I can remember back to primary school where the sports uniform was a tunic and big bloomery red bloomers. The elastic at the top of the thigh was so itchy. I could never make a child wear them after having had that experience.

FO from SWMSFS

I posted a while back about my decision to give up trying so hard with the knitting. While everyone else is talking about what lace project they are going to do next and in what spider-web thread it is going to be made, I have committed myself to being She Who Makes Stuff From Squares. I have bought some mothballs to tuck away with the Rogue jumper - I know I will get back to that complicated stuff sometime but that time is not now. And it's not soon either. I am really enjoying my return to bimbo knitting. Yesterday I popped into a LYS to check out what's good and tasty, and had some fancy new kind of circular needles pushed onto my spend-lovin' self. They were marketed to me as being "really tiny points, great for lace and cables". "HA!" I snorted derisively. Now that I am comfortable with my tag as Bimbo Knitter, She Who makes Stuff From Squares, I am impervious to knitting snobbery. I don't care how many Clapotis you have made - I don't even care what the correct pluralism of Clapotis is. I laugh at your lace. It's seed stitch scarves all the way, baby. And seed stitch neck cowls for skiing too - the one below is for Mum and another one in charcoal is for Dad.