Give me a freaking break! Pale blue headings? Light grey for the page numbers?? What’s wrong with black??? I pay good money for your patterns… it would be nice not to go blind reading them! (11 pages of pattern where 5 or 6 would have done! PUT the key on the same page as the chart please!!) I may have to stop buying BT patterns!?? (My star rating reflects my frustration with this BT and issue and not so much the pattern itself! It’s fairly well written and cute.)

Mods…(Yes I have mods already as I am not a fan of the pick up stitch edge on the bottom and the cuffs! looks sloppy to me.)

• Casting on with ribbing.
• Going to try this in the round. Seems silly to seam this. (CO 160, Longtail paired CO)
• No tubular anything or kitchener. Nope, these are not for me!
• I think I might want a longer sleeve so will need to do more underarm increases.
• Reverse st.st pills more than st.st so guess what I plan to do! (Plus I don’t care for the look of the wrong side on the right side… Jmho! LOL)
• Doing a 2x2 Twisted Cable Rib for a bit of interest.
• Making a false seam by knitting 1 K1B stitch on each of the sides. It doesn’t stand out much but it is noticeable.
• I didn’t bother with the bump stitch on either side of the cable.

Anyway, so far so good and I like what is happening and how it looks :-)

Sept 13th

I am up to where I have to separate for the sleeves. Doing the back first… (The dolman sleeve increases work really well in the round :-)

My thoughts at this point… to be honest, I can’t wait to be done with the lace panels! It is NOT intuitive and I have to look at every line of every RSR every repeat and it’s driving me batty! I am glad that this is a small project and it will be done soon!

Sept 15th

The body is done and looks soooo big, I sure hope that it fits her… 2 huh? Looks to me like it would fit a 6 year old but it is suppose to have a lot of ease… we’ll see!

I worked each side separately, I have a cone of yarn and not balls so I didn’t feel like winding cakes, and it worked out fine once I got my head around the written instruction. (Which are pretty fuzzy for the sloped shoulder and neck edge decreases/BO’s!) I wrote the stitch numbers on the schematic so I would know where I was and where to go next.

Done :-)

111 grams.