Button Day

Not that anybody’s been nagging me to post this project, ever since I finished it (I’m looking your way, Kansas). Except, I didn’t really finish it until today, because it needed buttons. Today was Button Day. I have sewed buttons on four projects, and now I’m setting in sleeves. I know, right? Get all the sewing done at once, that’s my motto.

Yarn: Hayfield Baby Blossom DK
Needles: US 3 (3.25 mm), US 6 (4.0 mm)
Pattern: Hayfield #4844, Dungarees & Pinafore
Mods: Stockinette rolls, so I picked out the cast-on edge and knit down for a picot-edged hem instead, which flares out a little, but I've been informed is charming. Yeah, I MEANT to do that.
And a shout out to the Yarn Barn of Kansas (still looking at you!) for carrying the yarn, pattern, and store sample that enabled all that.

The Orange Creamsicle Pinny happened when I discovered that Hayfield had picked up the banner of self-striping baby yarn, dropped by Bernat some time ago. I made a baby sweater from the Bernat yarn years ago, which I recently found in a bag, completely finished, except for - assembling? No... Buttons? Nope... All it needed was tucking in the ends. That’s not even sewing.

Yarn: Bernat Baby Jacquards Florals (discontinued)
Needles,  Pattern:  lost in the mists of time
Mods: I cut the yarn short and started the next stripe in the sleeves to match the stripe width of the body. Lots of ends to deal with!

I also sewed buttons on these two "finished" projects: