Happy Birthday Stella!

Stella, beautiful daughter of my friends Zita & Henri, turned 1 yesterday. She's an amazingly cute little munchkin and to celebrate her first year I knitted her a version of Anouk, designed by one of my favorite designers, Kate Gilbert.

I knitted it up from a bit of Sizzle remainders and bought two extra colors of scheepjes/ Isis to match. It's a shiny 100% cotton and a think I used less than one skein of blue, less than one skein of green and about 1/2 a skein of light yellow. (one skein = 50 grams/ 100m) It's knitted on #4 (mm) needles. I decided to skip the pockets and make it colorful, but basic. I liked knitting it so much that it inspired me to design more kids stuff. I have, it's on paper, not in knitting. But I'll keep you posted on that new endeavor. I decided on the flowery buttons. The buttons ánd the dress were luckily (phew, phew...) greatly appreciated by Stella her parents. I love knitting gifts and giving them away! (duh, Sas, you're supposed to give gifts away...)

'I'm likin' this! Definitely likin' this!'

'Wait, hold on, hold your horses, there's more...!'

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'I'm a model, you know what I mean and I do my little roll on the catwalk...'

'People, I'm tellin' ya, this garment is just perfect to play in, it moves, it never clinches and it stretches while you stretch!'
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And now... for your knitting entertainment... watch this video! Great music, great video! (metal note, buy cd!) and then this one, a great Finnish animation on how knitting gets obsessive... (don't I know it...)