For My Little Star

Yarn: Rowan Cotton Glace (100% cotton), #809 Pier - 3 balls, #800 Bud - 1 ball, #725 Ecru - 1 ball (125 yd [115m] / 50g)
Pattern: Adorable Knits for Tots by Zoe Mellor
Needles: Addi Turbo US size 4 (3.5 mm) / 24" circular
Size: For 1-2 Yrs (Chest circumference 25" Length 13.5")
Start: November 6, 2006
Finish: January 31, 2007

線材: Rowan Cotton Glace (100% 棉), #809 淺藍 - 3 球, #800 淺綠 - 1 球, #725 乳白 - 1 球 (125 yd [115m] / 50g)
圖樣: Adorable Knits for Tots by Zoe Mellor
針號: 3.5 mm/60 cm 輪針
尺寸: 1~2歲 (胸圍25寸 長13.5寸)
開始: 2006/11/06
完成: 2007/01/31

Finally, I finished it. This is the first sweater I made for my baby boy Connor. I fell in love with it the first time I saw the book on the store shelves. Most people make baby clothes "before" the babies arrive. I procrastinated till now... feeling guilty... Actually I was still working before Connor was born. A really stressful job, 50-60 hours a week, day and night. Even though I put in all those overtime, our project was still lagging behind. All I can say is, our project planning was done very optimistically... At the time, I was lucky if I got enough sleep. I knitted, but just some easy, mindless scarves and ponchos. Looking back now, it was probably good that I didn't bother making clothes for Connor. Like all babies, he grew out of his clothes every 2-3 months. And during his infant stage, he spit up all the time. I usually had to change his clothes 3-4 times a day, did laundry almost every other day. I don't think my handknits can take this kind of abuse.

呼! 終於做好了... 這是我第一次織衣服給寶貝兒子Connor, 小名"卡比"(唸二聲 - 不想用"鼻"這個字, 像卡到鼻子... 嘻... ) 在店裡看到書時就好喜歡這件. 很多人可能在baby出生前就織好了小孩衣物, 我一件也沒織. 其實那時還在上班, 公司project忙到不行, 每週工作50~60小時, 進度還是趕不來, 壓力好大, 休息睡覺都來不及了, 自然織的也少. 再來, 小baby長大很快, 一件衣服可能穿不到2~3個月就太小了, 又容易弄髒. 卡比小時候吐奶吐的很兇, 常常一天內換三~四次衣服, 至少每兩天要洗一次衣服, 有些污垢還洗不掉. 怕手織品禁不起這樣洗, 所以心想等卡比大一點了再織吧！


This is also the first time I tried the intarsia technique. OMG! It is tedious! Lots of planning and counting blocks on the chart. And tons of loose ends. I counted, there were a total of 49 loose ends in this little sweater. 49! I know, there are a lot more sophisticated intarsia FOs out there, mine is easy compared to them. But this is about as much as I am willing to do. I will think twice before I embark on another intarsia project.

這是我第一次嘗試用intarsia的方法做顏色變化. 我的天啊! 實在是有夠囉嗦. 要先計劃好在什麼地方換線接線, 要算格子. 織好後線頭一大堆, 我算過啦, 整件衣服一共有49個線頭. 49個!! 下次除非是碰到超愛的樣子, 不然大概不會再輕易做這種麻煩的工.