Happy St. Patrick's Day! And a Finished Knitting Project too!

Had hoped to post more stuff about my knitting, as I'm using this blog more frequently over the past year or so, but am so up in the air about what to write about, it literally seems to be more about whatever is happening the day that I decide to write in this blog.... Fairly directionless, I know, but tends to be how I feel that I am a lot of the time, which, of course, is never a good thing :-(

But, here is a toddler sweater that I have FINALLY finished over the weekend....it's the Boat Sweater pattern by Debbie Bliss, from a recent book (published about a year ago), and I can't remember the exact title of it, but it's something related to Family Knits (25 patterns are included if memory serves me right). I don't have my own copy of the book, as I borrowed it from the library, but copied this pattern, as it was the perfect pattern for me to knit for sailing friends who had a baby back last October. I wanted to get a nautical theme, and ended up deciding between this sweater, and another pattern, and this one won out on the day. I've figured that I really don't like sewing up all the seams, etc., so next time, I'll aim to do the seamless kind of sweater, by knitting in the round. I have a basic children and adult sweater pattern, that can be varied to spice it up. I'm not that confident in my knitting yet to vary the basic pattern too easily, but I knit with my Stitch 'n Bitch group on a fairly regular basis, that they could hopefully help me the next time I decide to tackle a sweater again!

Anyway, here are a some photos of Niko's sweater, which I hope to get to his parents this week, all going well (will be heading off to FL on Friday, so hence hoping to get it to them this week!)





And happy Paddy's day to all the Irish, and wannabe Irish, and anyone who is Irish just for this one day of the year!! Hope you all enjoy!