Mia in Yellow

This is a little project I finished recently for a new niece - Mia. It was created in the spirit of de-stashing and doing a little designing.

The idea was for a tunic dress that the little babe could wear and as she grows it becomes a top. The armholes had to be quite wide for that idea and while initally I wanted to do little puffy cap sleeves I ended up keeping them flat and wide.

I'm not so happy with the neck line - without the model I couldn't figure out how big to make the neck and just ended up casting off loads of stitches. It still looked too small so I didn't add a moss stitch neckband as originally planned. I had thought of adding a big ribbon around the middle to pull it in and make the top half more of a bodice.

Knitting on 5mm, I doubled up some old 8ply yarn which is really soft (I think it had some acrylic in it) in a nice mellow yellow - not loud canary yellow. A couple of crochet buttons here and there and it's lookin' pretty. A good project to save some space in those stash containers.

A de-stash was needed as TTP, Davina and Fresh Tea's little button came to stay this week and of course that meant several LYS trips and more yarn purchasing! While I don't think they got the warmer weather they were expecting we had loads of fun with trips to the beach, Kelly Tarltons and LYS! It was fun having little Ella stay - kidshave that back-to-basics approach to life - live in and enjoy the moment.

Right I'm off to find purple nail polish for a wedding this weekend - have a nice one!