I have been working on my mini Davey.  Starting these little guys out is very fiddly.  I am not a fan of balancing 12 stitches on four needles, but I have actually gotten better at it over time.

I had ordered Knit Picks Palette yarn because it is very reasonably priced and comes in a variety of colors.  I was trying to find some good “skin” colors, but  it can be hard to tell on the computer screen what the actual color will be.

I knitted these legs.

Davey told me they were too pink.  I looked at David, and he agreed.  I guess they are pretty pink especially in comparison to the more olive-toned mini cp.

I tried to make the argument that people come in many different colors, tones or hues, but they weren’t convinced.

So I decided to order the yarn that Arne and Carlos use to make their dolls.  David and Davey are much happier with these colors.  Fortunately, I can still use the “pink” legs because I will put pants and socks over them.

Now I can finish up little Davey. Except that yesterday I decided that I just had to knit some lace, and that I needed to start a new project immediately.  I kinda don’t like this about myself – the tendency to start new things so impulsively, but I just go with it. It takes me in interesting directions sometimes.

I have wanted to knit a pi shawl for awhile so I have started a pattern by Donna Druchunas called Diamond Rings.  Unfortunately, I started it 3 times.  This was a little frustrating!  It was my own dumb fault.  I tried to transfer to circular needles too early.  Twice!  My favorite dumb mistake was that after I transferred, I had too much circular needle for the number of stitches I had so I was having to kind of move the stitches around.  Somehow I took off knitting in the wrong direction.  Hadn’t done that for awhile.  So I ripped it out again.

Now, I am off to a decent start.

I may have gotten carried away with the stitch markers, but I am trying to protect myself from more dumb errors!

A couple of weeks ago, I began the process of joining the arms to the body of my Wyatt sweater that I am making for Davey.

Once the arms and body are joined together, than I will begin to knit the yoke and neck which will look like this:

When I joined, I had to bind off six stitches in the center.  This is where I ceased knitting in the round and instead began knitting back and forth.  This is so I can create the opening in the front.

First though, I had to join them together.  The instructions baffled me a little, but thankfully my friend Ann from Yarn Folk helped me figure it out.  I was able to join it together while I was at the shop working with her.

Then I got it home and got it all messed up.  I am not sure what I did, but I got really confused so I just took it all apart again.  There were a bunch of stitch markers and I was trying to keep the front and back straight.  Somehow I got them mixed up and I am just not sure what I did. Then I got disgusted with my mess, and I put the project in time out for a couple of weeks.

Time outs can be great things if you get the item back out of time out.  My motivation to get the sweater out of time out was the fact that winter is coming, and this might be the only winter the size I am making will fit Davey.

So I tried it again.  The second time around, everything made so much more sense to me.  It went much more easily.  I wish I could do everything twice.  I would understand so much more.

I did this rejoining last weekend when we were up that the art building with David.  He was doing some work and so we were hanging out with him.  I found that I do much better work when I am sitting on a tall chair in front of a tall table where I have tons of room.  It was perfect!  I need this set up at home!

That’s not the greatest picture, but we do have joinage.

Here’s hoping that I can knit the rest without making any enormous mistakes!

I’ve been working on Davey’s sweater.  It’s going slowly, but it’s really fun to knit.

Today I decided I’d better try it on him to make sure that it’s not way small.  I didn’t think it would be, but better to find out now.

It’s going to be plenty big (assuming I finish it in the next month or so!).  It’s a size 8, and I was careful about gauge so hopefully it will fit him for a minute or two!  There is ribbing on the bottom, but it’s just tucked under here.  It’s also not quite arranged on him correctly, but I just wanted to get an idea as to how it was going.  So far, so good.

Davey was a really good sport about helping me out with some pictures.

And I am always looking for an excuse to get some pictures of this growing little guy.