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Rainbow confetti
Well, following the recent theme… i have yet another pair of matching sweaters to share. Shocking, I know. Right?! 😅
This time, I opted for a textured pattern that I love and have made for myself a couple times already called Laurie, from Josée Paquin. It is so simple yet so texturally interesting and elegant! And I thought it was the perfect match for the yarn I had in mind.
The yarn I’m using is a DK Pima Cotton yarn my mother-in-law got for me in Peru.
She got me 4 balls, 2 of the Rainbow confetti colourway and one each of the happy confetti colourway and a plain natural. All together, those make a wonderful gradient, so that’s what I decided to do.
V’s sweater is worked from rainbow to natural and E’s sweater is the opposite, going from natural to rainbow, making an adorable pair. Now since I was working on a limited amount of yarn, I did my best to maximize the use of each but also wanted to make sure the sweaters fit for as long as possible. As such, I maximized body length and opted for shorter 3/4 sleeves.
As the Laurie sweater pattern doesn’t provide child sizes so I had to adapt the pattern to child sizes. All the details are obviously on my Ravelry project page as usual, linked here and here.
V’s sweater is about a size 5T. Back and front were worked over 85 sts with 26sts for each shoulder and 33 sts for the neck. The 3/4 sleeves were worked over 50 sts with 3 decrease rows.
E’s sweater is about a size 2-3T. Back and front were worked over 65 sts with 17 sts for each shoulder and 31 sts for the neck. The 3/4 sleeves were worked over 44 sts with 3 decrease rows.
I love these adorable little sweaters so much, and they are so buttery soft!! I hope the kids will get a lot of wear out of those.
Now then, until next time 🙂
Peach Fuzz trio
Life is busy folks! But even though I haven’t been posting here, I promise I’ve been crafting on. And I was so proud of my last few makes that I wanted to pop in here to show you what it is 🙂
A few months ago, I ordered Melanie Berg’s most recent book “Sweaters”, and I love just about every design in there (as expected! She’s such a brilliant pattern designer).
I decided to break the ice with the simple but oh so colourful Peach Fuzz sweater, paired with some wonderfully soft Sami 100% organic Pima cotton yarn I brought back from our last trip to Peru. The purple yarn used for the yoke is also Pima cotton, it’s the Pima Cotton DK from Cloudborn Fibers. I’ve had this in stash for such a long time and absolutely LOVE IT (some of you might recognize it as I’ve used it for a snowflake sweater before) and although it’s not as light and airy as Sami, I thought it paired well for the more structured rib parts of the sweater.
And because I loved this piece so much, I couldn’t make just one… so I made three – one for me and one for each of my girls. Can I just squeeeee over how cute this little trio is?!
For my own, I followed direction for the smallest size and used 68 sts sleeves. I made no other modifications to this wonderful design.
For the girls, I obviously had to whip up something a bit different since the book doesn’t provide child sizes. All the details for each sweater are provided on my Ravelry project page (here for the 2T version and here for the 4-5T) but basically I changed the neckline to add buttons and changed the striping sequence on the sleeves to accommodate smaller little arms.
That’s all folks! I’ll have another matching kit to show you again in a few months I’m sure, so until then, take care 🙂
Crafty Effie 