Friday, February 29, 2008

Girlyness!

I have been one busy lady! I have two FOs to show off today (one won't be quite as exciting since you've already seen most of it), but regardless, I'm still excited. What took me so long you ask? Getting to the store to buy that darn ribbon! I finally mozied on over to pick it up at 1 am Wednesday morning after I finished my late shift at work. By 2 am I had ribbon in hand and was ready to finish these little items off! Brace yourself, here is the first:

The pattern itself is from the book "Special Knits" by Debbie Bliss. Overall, I'd say this little top was way more tedious than it needed to be, but mostly due to user error (knitting in the wee hours) rather than pattern error. I will say though, thank goodness for Ravelry! There is no picture in the book of that cute little keyhole button closure in the back, and trying to make sense out of that part of the pattern without seeing it first would have been madness.

(My photoshop refused to make that bigger, but all of those photos are uploaded onto Flickr here!)


19 comments:

sweetp said...

Oh that is stunning. I blogged about my DD wearing her vest this week. It is gorgeous on, I am sure your friend is going to adore it.

Gudrun Johnston said...

Superly duperly cute!

Julia said...

What more could a girl ask for? A pony. Yup, it's inevitable.

The Dollars said...
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The Dollars said...

Holy crap, those are adorable!! I am so jealous that all of my friends seem to be popping out boys. I can't tell you how much baby blue scrap yarn I have.

AWESOME job!!

P.S. I had a really, stupidly bad misspelling in my other comment that I just deleted. (In case you were wondering)

IrishGirlieKnits said...

Squee!! Absolutely adorable!! Love love love them both! The ribbon just puts the girlyness factor over the top. Great job!

Mari said...

Very Cute. That top is adorable. Love it. :)

Linda said...

What a gorgeous dress, I need a baby to knit for!

NH Knitting Mama said...

Wow, your girly FO's are awesome. Such a nice job!

Anonymous said...

So girlylicious! That will be a blessed baby.

Didn't your mom tell you not to be running around at 1 AM. There are bad people out there at that time of morning!

Sarah said...

I'm pretty much convinced that the ridiculous level of girlyness in baby clothes has to do with the fact that it's difficult to tell the sex of a tiny baby. It's like screaming, "Look at me I'm a girl!" Which might explain my brother. He had to wear his two older sister's clothes when he was a baby. I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. But good job with the knitting!

Oksana said...

Those are some seriously girly duds, alright! They look really practical, too, so I bet the recipient will get a lot of use out of them.

And hooray for Ravelry for helping you make sense of the back closure!

Anonymous said...

Both are so unbelievably precious, great job!

Aunt Kathy said...

yeah, girlie meters are on overload, I love them both, beautiful work.

Wanted to thank you for playing on the contest on my blog today, don't forget to come back all month, increase your chances to win.

I will have to look for you on Ravelry to add you to my friends, I enjoyed reading your post, a good writer makes blogging all the more fun.

Anonymous said...

Yay for girlyness! Absolutely fantastic!!!

Anonymous said...

Adorable - and SO girly! :)

amanda said...

Cuteness is right! I love both of these - especially that hat!!! The perfect amount of girliness.

Dove Knits said...

These are so sweet.

Dorm Bedding said...

What adorable girly little things!!!!