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22 March 2010

Cauliflower Swan I can't resist showing off a picture of my little grandniece, Cauliflower Swan, in the dress I knitted her for Christmas. As you can see in the picture, I overestimated how fast she would grow. I made matching slippers too but they were far too large, and probably won't fit until next year.
And yes, I actually do call my grandniece "Cauliflower" — it's a pun on her name.

post by: Orange Swan at: 14:09 | 9 comments

Cheeks!

posted by gaspode 22 March | 14:16

Oh. My. Gorgeous little girl and that dress is absolutely beautiful.

posted by Kangaroo 22 March | 14:46

How is Peaches doing?

posted by danf 22 March | 15:01

She's good! She's 13 now.

posted by Orange Swan 22 March | 15:23

Lovely!

posted by gomichild 22 March | 17:36

What a great dress! How did you do the colorwork?

Also super cute grandniece :)

posted by Sil 22 March | 17:52

The pattern called for the rose motifs to be knitted into the dress, but I just couldn't be bothered doing it that way. It's so tedious doing work from charts. So I knitted the dress in the plain ivory and Swiss darned the roses on afterwards. Much quicker and looks just about as good.

posted by Orange Swan 23 March | 08:20

what a cutie, and I love that dress! Handmade things are tricky for a little one - a friend made us a beautiful sweater, hat, and mittens set, and it only fit my guy for like...one day, in the summer. So, I put it on him with a pair of shorts and took a photo :-)

posted by pinky.p 23 March | 10:33

The dress was actually size six to nine months. Cauliflower was born in early August, which made her almost five months old at Christmas. I figured she'd go right into the dress at that time and be able to wear it all the rest of the winter. But it turned out she's small for her age, so that threw off my calculations. My sister-in-law thinks it might fit her as a sweater next year, which is something to hope for.

posted by Orange Swan 23 March | 14:04

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