(Belated) Blog-iversary!

Who forgets their own blog-iversary?  Well, apparently I did.  I started this blog a year from Boxing Day and I didn't even remember until last night.  I must have been distracted by my cute niece...yes, I'll blame it all on the toddler.  Speaking of my niece, like last year, I knit her a sweater for Christmas.  Unlike last year though, I finished this sweater ON TIME and even wrapped it and put it under the tree.  Also, unlike last year, Paige unwrapped it and put it on herself.

               

Please excuse my niece's appearance, she literally just put the sweater on when my mom snapped this picture.

I knit this sweater using the "Girlfriend School Spirit Sweater" Pattern by Wendy Bernard and some Rowan DK cotton I picked up really cheap ($1/ball) at a gift shop in Cheticamp on Cape Breton Island. 

The whole thing is knit in the round from the top down and when I finished the body, I had this funny feeling that the neck looked a bit strange.  Still, I had a deadline and I wasn't about to rip the whole thing back, so I convinced myself it was my imagination and forged ahead.  After I completed the neckline though, I could no longer deny that the neck was screwed up.  In fact, I wasn't even sure my niece, who has an enormous noggin (and medical professionals have confirmed it), could fit her head through the hole.

So I didn't something I have never done before and up until the minute I did it, I wasn't sure was possible.  I ripped out the cast on edge.  Now this isn't as easy as ripping out from the cast-off edge, but it did the trick. 

I am still curious about how I managed to muck up the neckline, though.  Has anyone else had any trouble with this pattern?

Comments

[jae]

cute kid!
cute sweater!
happy blogiversary!
now show me your scarf already!
are we gonna be twins?

[bree]

wait..you can rip out the cast on edge?
this is very critical news - i have a sweater i want to do that on!
i love the sweater - and im glad you didnt poke your eye out finishing it with carrice's crazy-long dpns. once you get used to them you can totally avoid injury - but those first few inches knitting with them are nuts!
love your sweater xo bree