It's Wonderful

Let's talk about my favorite pattern for kids' sweaters. As you might guess from its name, it's pretty Wonderful! 

Through the years, I've completed 14 Wonderful Wallaby sweaters for grandkids and other kids, and I started number fifteen just last week! 

This pattern is a classic hoodie, and super simple, though it does have a couple of places where the knitting gets tight. Still, I can't help loving the simplicity of a seamless sweater that is easy for kids to wear...and also easy to put on and take off "all by themselves!"

Quick to knit, I've added custom touches to many Wallabies, and looking back through them (and the kiddos wearing them)  makes me so happy! 

The one I'm currently knitting makes me the happiest right now, and it will have many of my favorite custom touches...such as an actual placket (the pattern calls for just a simple split at the neck opening)... 

...pictures and details in duplicate stitch or intarsia, to make each hoodie special...

...and sleeves provosionally cast on so I can knit them down to the same length as the body. (Bonus: sleeves knit top down are easily lengthened later by ripping back cuffs and adding rows!)

Wallabies are certainly wonderful for the flexibility they offer the knitter, and I will keep knitting them as long as I know kids who love hoodies! 

So many things in life are wonderful, just like the Wallaby...and so many things are not. Let's focus on the wonderful when we can. That's my plan, at any rate. I hope you'll join me. 

Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health! 

PS-not compensated by Paradise Fibers at all...I just really LOVE this pattern! 

How About a Little Knitting

Pretty Knitty Jewelry started as a craft and knitting blog. As my last few posts have illustrated, it is often more than a craft blog, but knitting is how it all started. Sooo, how about a little knitting in this post?

I'm currently in a KAL (Knit-a-long) with knitting friends far and wide. Actually, I'm in two KALs...one that requires the use of self-striping yarns, with one entry allowed per month to be entered for prize drawings. This will be my next entry:

And the other KAL is an adventure, with 5 categories to choose from each quarter of 2024. It the knitter can complete a project in 3 of the 5 quarters before the quarter's end, the knitter is entered for prizes! As an overachiever, I have already complete 3 projects in the third quarter, as well as casting on a fourth and fifth!

Bulky afghan, housewarming gift.

Rainbow, balloon dog, worsted weight yarn. 

Test knit, fingering weight yarn. 

Wonderful Wallaby, DK-weight yarn.

Breezeway shawl, lace-weight
(and fingering) yarn.

I've also pulled out the spinning wheel again, and I'm working my way through some mystery fiber that was dropped off with the wheel when Jenny loaned it to me. I think it's going well, especially since my main goal is to simply play and get familiar with the process, again. It is very soothing.

There are plans for two more Wallaby sweaters for boys, some pretty things for the girls and a couple sweaters for Pretty...wish me luck with that list! Better than luck, I think a short post might be just the ticket for this knitter today. That'll leave me with more time to knit!

What are you making time to enjoy today? Whatever it is...

Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!

Cheers!, to the last hurrahs of Summer!

A Tale of Two Saturdays

Football, Knitting and the Lake House. It's been a pretty perfect couple of Satudays! Well, let's be clear about who I am...it's way more about the knitting and the lake house than the football! But I am looking forward to a sports themed little celebration for the littlest of the littles this afternoon...and there will be cuppy-cakes (my daughter is so talented)!

In preparation, I have knit sports-themed balls...

...and a tiny wallaby! (This is #12...I really can't get enough of this pattern!)

I finished the wallaby last weekend, in between the donuts... 

friends and phones...

and the food! Oh, the food and the cooking! 

Apple-Pie Crisp...Check out the
Pretty Good Recipes page!

Even though the weekend was a little chilly and wet, we laughed, and we knit and we had such a fun time, as we do each time we visit the lake house!

It is wet and chilly again this weekend, but we will enjoy the family (and the food!), and we will celebrate the little man's first trip around the sun...Happy 1st Birthday, Little Bug!

I hope that you have had a lovely week, and if you have not, I pray that your soul will find rest over the weekend. Everyone needs a moment to breathe. While you are breathing, may you find something fun to do with your hands, and perhaps someone fun to spend time with. Whatever you're up to, I sure am glad that you stopped in for a minute!

Knit in Good Health, and enjoy the game! (Any game. Football. Baseball. Board game. Whatever. Enjoy!)