Second Sweetness

Recipient: Baby Ella
Designer: Moi
Pattern: Sweetness
Completed: June 26, 2008
Colours: white, powder blue and heathered powder blue/soft pink
Yarn: white: James C. Brett "Kool Kotton", 50% cotton/50% acrylic DK weight; blue and blue/pink: Sirdar Denim Tweed, 60% acrylic/25% cotton/15% wool DK weight
Ungiven status: To mail out
Pictures:

2008-Jul-6

A few weeks ago, I found out to my surprise (thanks to Facebook profiles) that one of my husband's cousins is going to become a grandmother in August! Total surprise to me, but of course there should be some knitting happeneing there. Apparently the baby is a girl, so, hmm, what could I possibly make that's cute and fast? :)

Actually, I've been kind of looking for an excuse to make Sweetness again. Right now there are 12 projects using it on Ravelry, and about 8 of them have photos. And there's some real creativity with the colours happening! One person used three colours, using a different background colour in the centre rows of the main stranded motif. Several people used the contrast colour in new places, like the garter ridges at the top and the bottom, or the i-cord straps. So I was inspired to change things up a little, too. I once again used white as the main colour, but I found some odds and ends in the stash from a cardigan project for my older daughter that looked like they'd blend really well. I made it a little more fair isle by changing the pattern colour in the centre of the main motif, used the contrast colours for the thicker sections of garter stitch and the straps, and - tadah!

I am completely in love with it. Thank you to everyone who changed up the colours and showed me what else I could do with my own pattern!

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