Year of Projects Week 5 & 6

It's finally finished! And only a week late!

And I'm so proud of it! It's my first ever garment and I think it came out really well. It's quite hard to tell in the picture, but I used 5 quite plain silver buttons, which I think set off the whole hoodie really well, without looking too much with the heavily patterned yarn. And all the stripes match up (mostly, but we won't mention the top of the front, where I think my gauge altered...)

I only made one modification to the pattern, and that was to have five buttons instead of one. I can't see this being used as a jumper if it doesn't fasten up all the way, because it won't keep her very warm that way.

The back shows that the stripes match up all the way round, though there is a slight change from the back to the hood.

The only thing that surprised me was that in all the pattern notes I've read on Rav, people have been commenting that they just had enough yarn to finish, but I have a ball and a quarter left over... Ah well, I'll make more preemie bonnets to give to the hospital!

And to follow my comment that it looked, last week, like I was making it for a baby octopus. After I knitted the hood it looked even worse!

But I am ridiculously proud of this hoodie, and I hope they send me a picture of her wearing it!

Now, back to the regularly scheduled programming of actually posting on my blog, and reading other peoples'...

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