(or at least trying to.)
The Little One is Not So Little. NSLO came to work with me about a month ago, when the daycare was closed. A professor who has a child almost the same age happened by the department office as I was showing off my progeny, and said something along the lines of "My god, you're huge." (This is height, by the way. I am not a healthy weight, but my toddler is.) We are moving into the summer months, but all work environments are likely to be heavily air conditioned.
A daycare center is a work environment. The NSLO needs a sweater.
The NSLO was ecstatic to have Mommy knitting a sweater. There was not a lot of love for the color; in fact, there was heavy petitioning for pink. But this is some yarn that I bought back I think when I was pregnant, and I didn't want to spend a lot of money on something that a fickle child wouldn't want when it was done.
There was much searching of libraries for a good pattern. I am a Very Slow Knitter, and not one who is enamoured of taking many measurements. I had seen Kim's top-down sweater, and declared it a thing of beauty, but it is very difficult to find the book. Luckily, one of the... hmmm... less-well-kept libraries in the area has a copy -- and an exchange program with my local library. As a bonus, I could go take it out myself.
The sweater is actually coming along fairly well, but it's gotten to the point where it needs to be measured against an existing sweater or -- preferably -- against the wearer.
Of course, now the NSLO doesn't want a sweater. At all.
*Sigh*
have you shown her the pink yarn yet? maybe that will make her want a sweater again!
Posted by: kim | May 06, 2007 at 10:46 PM
I bet if you can get her to try it on, she might change her mind. Little ones, even NSLOs, are pretty fickle, but they do get it when mom makes something special, just for them. I say knit on.
Posted by: terby | May 08, 2007 at 10:27 PM