Here's one I'm really proud of - Poppy Girl.
There are few children in my life but those that are somehow connected to me were all born in July, so June is a month of baby knits. My niece is turning two in a few weeks and I had been brainstorming about something pretty for her since May. I hope Poppy Girl will be just the thing - if, that is, it fits!
I sneakily measured the soon-to-be birthday girl so I shouldn't be too far off mark. Just in case, I worked the top part in rib to make it stretch extra wide.
Poppy Girl is knitted from bottom up on circular needles. I used extra elastic bind off technique (really worth checking out) and instantly cancelled any benefits it gave me by adding not-so-elastic crocheted edging *sigh...*.
Do you recognise the flowers? I fell in love with this simple but effective design and now I'm adding them to (almost) all of my knits.
I am absolutely smitten by the flowers-on-lattice combination:
Each flower is stitched on, first the centre with yellow thread and then petals with red. It took ages (ekhm... two days...), but the effect is worth it - flowers lie nice and flat and I dare say they will survive washing, too. It may not look so great on the wrong side but hey, nothing's perfect.
Speaking of not perfect, my Poppy Girl has one serious snag. When adding crocheted edging around shoulder straps, I made too few stitches and the whole thing curls up no matter what I do to keep it flat.
I might yet rip the edging off and re-crochet it, because I feel this curling really spoils the effect. I might. We'll see.
PATTERN:
My own, except for crochet flowers (found here).
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