The Goo has a few stuffed toys, but not too many sweaters, so I opted to knit one for him for his birthday. I finished it a month early so he got to wear it a few times. No sense in waiting ("He don't know," as my brother says). I used a discontinued yarn, GGH Soft Tweed (grey with orange, green, yellow, and brown flecks). It turned out very cute, if I do say so myself!
[Goo and sweater, and Aunty Jean]
Well, in early December, another set of college friends had their firstborn, and I decided it was finally time to finish up a toy bear that had been in my WIP pile for a while (you may remember it here and here). It took much less time than I thought to attach the limbs, and I used up some leftover sock yarn to embroider the eyes and nose. I held off on sending it right away because the head was still a bit floppy and I wanted to f ind a ribbon to tie there.
Luckily -- or unluckily, as the case may be -- my brother came up to me one afternoon with a terrible look on his face. He was doing the laundry and had simply thrown The Goo's birthday sweater in with the rest of the lot. He felt awful, asked me if there was anything we could do to stretch it out again. Nope! All I could do was laugh. Here's what it looked like, with my coffee cup for scale:
[sweater, felted]
I was ready to save the buttons and toss it out, until MyKo came over and had a brilliant idea:
[sweatered bear]
I'm shipping it to BabyA this week! With care and washing instructions. And I'll make sure The Goo's next sweater will be in superwash.
What a beautiful sweater--in both versions. :) You realize, of course, that you are allowed to hold something like this over your brother's head indefinitely. Heh.
ReplyDeleteLOL! He's put me up for the past six months +, so I bet we can call it even. :)
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