Spun the wheel and it came up with number 10. Without further ado, Topaz.
I wanted to use up the single skein of W40 left from my Shalom sweater (to be blogged later) and decided, hey, it was about time I really tried my hand at color work. Thankfully a quick Rav search found Topaz, an adorable baby dress made in two colors of worsted weight with a little colorwork. A perfect gift for a new mom – more specifically, a gift for Christina who’s daughter, Charis, is almost four months old (confirmed by her father via Twitter, yay, Twitter!). I didn’t expect to get it finished before our trip to Delaware this weekend – I did only start it Sunday, after all but, hey, it’s done.
I sort of cheated in the color work department. After a not so great job on the front, I decided to skip the color work on the back. I did, however, have to teach myself how to seam a garment and didn’t cheat and knit this in the round, much as I wanted to. I feel sort of silly gifting a mostly wool item in late August though I’m pretty sure it’s currently too large for little Charis.
(Better photos will come later, hopefully. Either of the dress being worn by Charis or Christina’s smile at receiving it.)
See, that’s your problem, you did colorwork not in the round. I can’t tell you how much I hate purling with two colors! Congrats on the seaming though, I suppose that is one reason to do it as written instead of ITR. Also, the colorwork looks pretty good from here.