Knitting Dragonflies

No vacation for us this year. I've got my surgery scheduled, so there goes my PTO time. So I'll have to enjoy everyone's vacation photos, and do some knitting while I'm at it. May your knitting needles fly as fast as Dragonflies.....

Back to my same theme, who doesn’t love Elizabeth Zimmermann?? Her baby Surprise jacket ( rav link )  is the evolution of several patterns. From what I can piece together, that pattern is the result of her playing around with the basic idea for a bit. I see that she made the Baby Garter-stitch Jacket: The Prequel, which is published in Wool Gathering #61, sept 99. A very nice simple baby jacket. I also found the Surplice Jacket, ( rav link ) published in Woolgathering #50 . I also found the Tomtem jacket ( rav link ), which has a hood, and I love this addition to the pattern. Although this pattern was written for a child, I decided to give it a go, and try to make it for a baby present! Yarn:I settled on some Organic Cotton, I had knitted a small project with this and fell in love with it. It just keeps getting softer and nicer. I also wanted a color that wasn’t a baby color, and finally decided on this one called “spice”. I fearlessly cast on, knit about 6 rows and realize

Frogged my toe up socks, couldn't figure out where i was in the pattern and started some generic socks using the two circular needle method. ---------- Sent from AT&T's Wireless network using Mobile Email