A few small FOs

Primrose, a Kim Hargreaves kit, in Rowan 4ply soft, bright bubblegum pink.

This is the 3 month size. Instead of knitting two fronts, sleeves and a back, you start at one front and increase for the sleeve, repeat for the second front, then join and knit down the back to the bottom.  I like a smooth sleeve seam, and my staggered increases don't look tidy, so I cast on for the entire length of the sleeve and did short rows to shape the sleeve.
I also picked up the edge border rather than knitting a strip and sewing it onto the fronts, slightly stretched. In my lifetime I won't do one of those edges again.  Chris loves this, but I'm sure it's the bright pink colour rather than the design.  This is for baby O, and for baby O's mum, we have the March gift socks.

Fortissima socks, with horsechestnut!  I kid you not! Not sure why this should be (kinder to knitter's hands?  Softer on the foot?) and I didn't notice anything significantly different in the knitting of these socks.   Plain sock, using 2.5mm dpns for the leg and 2.25mm dpns for the foot.

My second pair of socks for March aren't going too well. It's the Yarn Yard's sock club for March, and they're pooling. I've tried 64 and am not down to 60 sts.  I think I may put this away and cast on something else, I don't really want a half yellow, half blue sock. I like the yarn though, it's very soft to work with. 

I know there's not much done, only a few rows, but past experience tells me that these will end up with long stretches of yellow rather than a nice mish mash of colour. Don't you just hate it when this happens?

Comments

[Jill]

I have the same yarn, haven't tried it yet, I don't object to a bit of pooling as long as it isn't a really big area of just one colour. Will let you know what happens......

[polly]

how can you do socks on 64 stitches? I am so jealous... i don't mind pooling unless it looks ugly. the colours look rather sweet to me

[francoise]

This little cardigan is so sweet! Nothing like a few baby knits to make you feel you're going somewhere!...

[Karen]

That's a really cute little sweater!

I don't like pooling when it leaves big blobs of color. I don't mind a little pooling though.