Why didn’t I know this???

Over the last few weeks, I have come to realize that it is infinitely easier to make a baby a sweater than a blanket. Why did I have to make so many baby blankets before braving a sweater???? I may never make another blanket again. I feel like I should make sweaters for all of those babies and now-toddlers for who m I never got around to making blankets.

I made Porkchop a cute little sweater for her baby shower (the only picture I have is pretty awful, so I’m not posting it here), but wasn’t 100% in love with it as a first effort. There had been another sweater from that same pattern book that I would have liked to make, but I lost the book, and it wasn’t a huge enough priority to buy it again. Coincidentally, a woman in my knitting group had a stitch pattern that I liked, and I just decided that what worked for her scarf would work equally well for my next sweater.

So far, so good. Maybe I’ve found something to do with all that excess yarn I’ve been collecting over the years…