Who doesn’t love toddlers dressed like muppets? Here is the fairy godchild, who is growing up entirely too fast, in the very very silly jacket I knit for her.

It’s Fun Fur (that yarn is DEAD to me now after eight skeins of it) knit together with a strand of matching sport yarn. It started off as the fur anorak on the cover of Knitting for the Pampered Baby, and then I split the front and added big heart buttons so it didn’t have to go on over the head. It’s pretty flipping cute.

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Elegance by KnitPicks (6 balls, DK weight alpaca/silk), size 8 needles. Finished size…about 32 inches at the center, a little over 5 feet wide.

pattern – this is 122 rows before the edging was added.

Jen reminded me that I never showed off the Viking Hat:

Pattern is here, and then I messed with it a whole bunch. I added the rivets up the center, and used furry black yarn for the base of the horns. This was a going-away present for TheRev’s four-year-old, although the hat is pretty stretchy, so for all I know TheRev is wearing the hat now. Although I made him some of the bicycle hat earwarmers from MenKnit, so he should step away from the viking hat.

There were matching mittens, which I kluged together using the Later Gator mitts from SnB Nation. I was going for kind of an armor thing, so they were light gray with rivets, with dark gray for the gusset part. And I did not take a photo of them.

The hat is sitting over a ceramic bank, which is why it has feet. I tried to get Gracie to model it, sort of a Cat in the Viking Hat effect, but you can probably imagine how well that worked out.

In addition to the mst3k baby sweater, I recently finished this stole/shawl thing for my friend who is going to give birth really soon.

The yarn is wool/alpaca blend Sierra Aran from elann.com, in color ‘Atlantis’ worked on size 8 needles.

The pattern is the Loose Lattice lace stitch from vol 2 of harmony guide, worked over 83 stitches. Detail:

I have a knitpicks order on the way, and a couple of things on needles, but nothing I can talk about since it’s all gifts.

I knit this for my friend’s baby this week. Dennis says it’s because I think of all children as mannequins for my knitting and sewing projects, and babies are the best because they don’t know when they’re wearing a totally ridiculous sweater.

The chart is provided; it’s 62 stitches across, and could also make a really nifty hat or adult sweater with some tweaking. You could just add some extra empty seats to Tom Servo’s left.I don’t make any promises about the quality of my charts, so if you feel like tweaking something, it’s probably an improvement.

Baby sweater in action:

Technically, he is wearing it backwards, and you know what? He does not care! Because he’s a rebel!

Say, is that Manos: the Hand of Fate behind him? Is it summoning dark forces, or just keeping him from rolling off the bed? No one can say.

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