Thursday, April 10, 2014

midweek making: Zoe sweater

About time Zoe got a new sweater, isn't it?

"Mine? Me!! "  She noticed when I started to sew on the buttons --and stayed right on top of me till they were all attached. These perfect buttons, had to get them at Vogue Knitting Live, even though I surely have a dozen in the old button tin that would work.


The sweater is Playful Stripes by Alana Dakos, I intentionally made it larger than needed, to last a while. But it came out even bigger than that. Yarn is mostly Dale Falk.

Accessories? All Zoe. She insisted on grabbing my red Thorpe* hat & her coordinating sippy cup. Girl's got style.


A test drive at the park. Extra floppy big sleeves? Did not slow her down.
Those picot sleeves and hem are what made me knit this--that and using all the stripey colors. And seeing a couple other versions at knit night....

Tulle and handknits. Can never go wrong.
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* Funny story about my Thorpe, and meeting Kirsten Kapur, the designer (now my friend & crafty collaborator, too) on this old post from December 2007, scroll down to the end.

10 comments:

margene said...

Zoe looks very happy with her colorful hoodie! The photo shoot must have fun for you both!

Jan (jcoop on ravelry) said...

Most adorable sweater EVER KNIT!

twinsetellen said...

Oh, my has that sweet thing grown. The sweater is wonderful, too.

Mary Lou said...

Is Zoe available to style future shoots? Love the whole get up. Nice sweater, let's hope it fits for a couple of years.

Vicki Knitorious said...

ADORABLE!! Oh, I just love it. She's adorable and ROCKIN' IT!

Manise said...

Adorable and THEN some! Your Thorpe hat is the perfect accessory and those buttons are the bomb! Brava Gale!

craftivore said...

Those truly are the perfect buttons, of course you had to buy them! And the sweater and girl are beyond adorable.

mary jane said...

Cheery cheery cheery! Thanks for sharing such happy bright moments!

gale (she shoots sheep shots) said...

Thank you all for the nice words! The very best compliment of all is she is still enamoured of wearing it, if she sees it she needs to put it on. Love that girl.

Lori ann said...

this is SO adorable gale, sweet zoe and the sweater you made her. it is really cute how much she loves it, but it's wonderful, i can see why she does. i love your hat too, off to read the post now!