Pattern: Cable and Seed Stitch Jacket, by Debbie Bliss, Debbie Bliss: The Baby Knits Book, 6-12 month size
Yarn: Plymouth Encore, #9621, 2 skeins
Needles: Addi Turbos, US 8 (5mm)

Yay, baby sweaters!

This is a super fast and super easy knit and the finished sweater is super cute. I just hope the baby actually turns out to be a girl. The parents couldn’t tell from the ultrasound if the baby is a girl or a boy who is really, really, really shy about flashing the world his private parts.

(Accidental) Modifications
The pattern only calls for 7 buttons. Frankly, you could probably get away with having only five. But thanks to my Amazing Math Prowess, I put in 8 buttonholes, so 8 buttons it was.

Also, the pattern calls for over 600 yards of a worsted weight yarn to finish this size; I needed less than 400.

See the pretty ribbon reinforcing the button band?

Yeah, I didn’t do any of that. I didn’t sew the buttons on either. My grandma was visiting, so I approached her with my arms full of sweater, ribbon, thread, and buttons, and a hopeless puppy look on my face, and she installed all that for me. And she taught me how to attach buttons securely. Hooray for grandmas!

Other entries about the Cable and Seed Stitch Jacket:

• Sweater Life Cycle

I got my Ravelry invite today. I didn’t even know until I went to check the impatient alpaca, who told me my invite was sent TODAY. A search through my spam trap quickly turned up the invite.

There’s nothing in my profile right now, but I’m registered as cogknition.

The first thing I did was to check if any of my patterns existed in the database. And guess what, they’re all there! Cool! I found a few more finished projects that I will add to the pattern pages.

Question for existing Ravelers: Do you find it helpful to have the photos from Flickr posted with the projects? I’m guessing the answer is an overwhelming yes. I ask because I don’t currently have my knitting photos posted on my Flickr account—I just host them locally here, and I would have to upgrade to Flickr pro to have the space to do so. I’ve been thinking about upgrading my Flickr for a while, and this may push me to do it.

Ok, off to add stuff to my profile!

Update: OMG OMG OMG *head explodes with the amazingness*

I found a group titled PhD Procrastination. Fantastic!

I’m definitely going to have to get my pics up on Flickr and then up on Ravelry. In the meantime, if you’ve friended me, could you drop me a note saying who you are? I just kind of want to know if I know you under a different username, or if you read my blog, or if you’re just super friendly to newbies. Thanks!

Behold what the Ravelry antsiness pacifer threw at me today:

• You signed up on August 10, 2007
• You are #24663 on the list.
• 8396 people are ahead of you in line.
• 10196 people are behind you in line.
• 46% of the list has been invited so far

8396!!! That number only has four digits! The ravelry blog says they’re now inviting 500-600 users a day, which means I should be getting my invite in a little over two weeks at this pace. Woo!

In other news, I can’t seem to keep a single piece of lace I knit. I took the curved shawl to show my grandma when I went home to visit last weekend and…it decided to stay there.

But I should have FOs to show you guys soon. ABC is airing the Badger game tonight and football games make for great knitting time. On Wisconsin!