All the way up to the button band!

I'll post a pic as soon as I can. The collar band looks nice, although the seed-stitch rib isn't as compressible as regular 1k1p rib. I had to do fewer stitches in the end. I'm up to the button band, which I'm currently casting off and then the buttonhole band. Still don't quite have a plan as to how I'm going to add buttonholes into this pattern stitch, although I'm sure it won't be a huge deal.

Must turn the chicken.

"Yarn Time!"

I'm now on my second, or rather my third tribble. Rain has now adopted the part-way finished second tribble as her own knitting project. At the moment it looks sort of like an all-cotton hairball with other bits of yarn mixed in with it and the circular needles woven through any possible opening. She kept repeating that she was knitting a sweater for her mommy, which was very sweet. Next I'll get one of those kid-safe needles, some yarn and a plastic needlepoint canvas for her so that she can do yarn projects with me.

Tribbles do dishes.

The tribble is a very good dish sponge. Unfortunately, this yarn really holds water and we live in a humid environment. I have a feeling I should make 3 or 4 and rotate them through the wash.

The sweater fits!

Yay! And DD loves it! She actually went to the mirror to see and grinned at herself all dolled up in pink. When I started the sweater, it seemed huge. Now, she's practically grown into it, although it's still long and she has room in the sleeves. I suppose I could knit a bit of extension before the button band if I had to...

Hee hee! Tribbles!

This is a brilliant idea! After struggling with pattern stitches and redesigns and other brainy things at 1 in the morning on no sleep, it feels incredibly good to just knit a tribble in one night. I just stitched the thing up and it looks like...well, a tribble. We need a new dish washing scrubber, so, there it is. Nice yarn, too. Recycled cotton/acrylic. Surprisingly soft.

Back to the little pink sweater

I re-did the shoulder decreases and the collar shaping...again. This time it looks right. Now I just have to get DD to hold still long enough to try it on. Then I knit the collar ribbing and then the button band. Sounds pretty simple, but I have to get time and space to measure the distance in stitches between five or six buttons...not easy in this house.

Maybe I'll knit a washcloth for a while. Whew.

About to turn the heel again....

You know, I make the same mistake each time I knit these, and it's mainly because I knit late at night with barely any light and just a few steps away from unconsciousness. I wind up with the last row of the short-row one decrease in error. Then I rip down to the instep and do it again. Each time. Never fail.