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This is an awesome pattern.  It is well-written and very attractive on the page.  It is also available in a longer, more detailed version with different available sizes.  Puerperium.  A total winner!  And just imagine how cute a baby is going to look in this!

The best part is the buttons.  They are fishbowls.  With tiny fish in them, breathing air bubbles through their gills.  So detailed.  So fabulous.  I got the buttons in Maine at Purl Diva.  If you have never been there, you should go.  You can stay overnight with my parents.

I think this yarn is really fun, with the strange, odd clumps of silk in it…Makes me wonder what the other colors look like.

Happy Baby Sweater, Baby!

This baby hat was knit with yarn from Catskill Merino Sheep Farm, which I purchased the day before that crazy hurricane this past fall.  The Union Square Farmer’s Market was one of few businesses open that day in the US area and aside from a few raindrops it was really an interesting, exciting place to be in the hours before the storm.

This pattern was from another planet, gauge-wise, and I’d not done anything stranded before, so when I decided to do another repeat of the design I should not have included that weird row of solid, which splits up the patterning and makes it look chopped in half.  Oh, well.  This hat is for a baby and that baby will not care.  She’ll just be warm.