Knitty Knitty

I've just finished another little cardy:-



I got the idea from an old-ish pattern book that I bought when my (now) 11 year old nephew was a baby. Some of the patterns are showing their age as most patterns for children now seem to be in muted colours and heavily textured rather than coloured motifs and fairisle.

Anyway, I used the basic pattern from the book except I went for short sleeves again, rather than long. I managed to use another four balls of wool from my wool bag but if I'd done long sleeves, I would have needed another ball of the main colour; I searched for ages on the internet and found that that shade had been discontinued (yes, its been in the wool bag for quite some time....) and could only source it from a yarn shop in the US. Only $7.95 to buy, so a tad cheaper than over here, but it had a whopping $47 shipping charge on it! So short sleeves it was :-)

I'm still planning to knock up a few plain jumpers/cardies for the babies due early next year - hopefully that should use up most of the spare wool in the bag - but I succumbed yesterday and went to a wool shop in The Shambles. Despite having gone in with the intention of buying some wool to knit a shrug for one of the girlies, I ended up buying some bamboo/wool-mix yarn to knit a stripy hoodie for Jacob or Sam.

I haven't decided who to knit it for yet - sense tells me that if I knit it for Jacob, then it'll get more use as they'll both wear it eventually. That said, Sam weighs the same as Jacob now and could probably quite happily interchange their jumpers and cardies.