Unfortunately, we still need to keep working on his weight. So unless I can work the extra 4.5 oz of milk into the other 5 daily feeds, I have to keep getting up. And since he can't quite handle the necessary volume to do that, I'm stuck.
Enter: the most boring of knits. The plain stockinette, top-down raglan sweater. This sweater is the antithesis of what I love to knit (complicated cables), but it is working out great to keep me awake at 3:00 a.m.
Also, in keeping with my desire to save some money (see previous post), I am using up the Patons Decor yarn I got last summer for $.98 per skein. This is going to be a big, loose, hopefully cozy, totally washable sweater for me. I wasn't planning on this for myself this year, but I needed something easy to work on in the dark.
The pattern is great - it's old and kitschy and easy enough to follow:
Raglans Unlimited! Oh, the raglan possibilities! Just look at those hipsters, modeling their raglans. I mock it, but dudes, this pattern book was $2.00 brand new, and has patterns for any kind of raglan sweater you could want (crew necks, v-necks, turtlenecks, cardis, pullovers...the possiblities are, well, unlimited!), and it goes from toddler size 2 up to a 52 inch chest. I'm not sure where my mom got this copy - she thinks she got it about 20 years ago from an older lady who was kind of her knitting mentor at the time. It's good stuff.
But you'd better have good eyesight if you're gonna use it.
Ahhh, I hear crying children. Gotta run. See ya at 3 a.m.
2 comments:
I like that! Very cute. Makes me wish, AGAIN, that I knew how to knit.
I was wondering if instead of cutting the feeding out if you can start pushing it back. For example do it at 3:15am for a couple of weeks and then at 3:30am etc, until he no longer needs it AND he'll be big enough to cut it out. Unless that will mess up your daytime schedule too much.
Anyway just a thought.
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