It's Been a Hot Minute

This poor sweater has been languishing for decades. There were two sweaters that I wanted to make in the Spring/Summer 1991 issue of Vogue Knitting. I never finished the other one, either. We moved, and then we moved again, and then life happened, and... I recently dug it out and discovered that all it needed was the other sleeve attached, the collar knit, buttons sewn on, and the matching hat made.

The hat is a hoot. It's such an odd shape lying flat, but it looks great on the kid in the pattern picture, so I think I just need to find a four-year-old model. The instructions said to knit the hem, purl a row for the fold, knit the outside, and sew it down later. Twenty years on, I know a better trick then that - when it was time, I just knit the first and last rows together.

I'm somewhat astonished that in all these years I never lost the project, the yarn, the instructions, or even the buttons! Tiny German sailboats:

The yarn has yellowed with age and sunlight along the exposed edge, and I don't think it will wash out; maybe the rest of the sweater will age to match. Or maybe it will just assure some young mother that sweaters, even white ones, are for playing in and getting dirty.

Needles: US 8 (5.00 mm)
Yarn: Bernat's Gloucester Cotton in Natural (discontinued)
Pattern: Carey Nicholson's #16 Child Cardigan and Beret
Mods: None that I remember, other than the aforementioned hemming hack