Baby Sweater!

I didn't get to knit as much as I wanted to this summer. Crap on a popsicle. I did a lot of cool things this summer, though. I just miss knitting so much. However, when I was in DC one of my pals told me about how every time her Grandma had a new grandchild she knit them a sweater. Then a light bulb went off in my head that maybe that's what I want to do when I'm a grandmother. However, there is no time like the present to learn how to make bomb ass sweaters. Since I am nowhere near being a Grandma, I figured I'd start early. However, maybe I won't be a Grandma and that's ok. Maybe I won't have kids or my kids won't have kids and I will support them anyway! Who says we have to succumb to societal expectations of marriage and childbearing? We only get one chance to go through the world one time so we should do what we want, provided we are not hurting others or something like that. What do I know? I'm 18. However, I did recently see this play called A Dollshouse 2 and it tackled issues of marriage and children and it was so interesting! Like it didn't present these issues like having or not having kids or getting married as a good or bad thing, it just analyzed them. I went with my Mom and we saw Nicole Kidman at that play, so that's pretty rad! Anyway, Grandma, and me. I think even if I never become a Grandma, I am still very grandma-like at heart. Whatever that means. So I wanted to make a sweater, but didn't have time to make a big one like I made before. So I combined my grandma vibes and my inability to make a full length sweater and came up with this.

So I added three different colors because I #ranoutofyarn and #don'tplanahead or I wanted a #artisticflair. Whichever reason resonates with you best. I don't really love it. But I am still really impressed that I made a sweater. Sweaters are just so cool! I love them! I could have made a neckline for the sweater, but I was too lazy. Whoops. The front and the back don't fit as well as I would have liked. I also don't know if I sewed the sleeves on that well. I wish I had a baby to test this on. Anyone have a baby they'd like me to test this sweater on? I think if you look at it you can tell it's a sweater. However, I am biased on that front. I want to get better at making sweaters and I want to learn as much as I can about sweaters. Maybe I can do some intarsia on sweaters! Wowza! I'm so excited. Maybe one day I'll be making my own sweaters. I love knitting! I'm learning and I love that! 

My stand in baby, childhood teddy bear, Candy.

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Working on my baby sweater! I am not on one of the arms. I ran out of yarn that I made for the back and body so I am using a different color. This will look interesting when it's done. I'm currently watching Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Year Reunion. I watched the movie Wet Hot American Summer with my pals in DC and it was so nice. It is so funny. I went to an amusement park today. It was fun! I've been thinking a lot about motivation and where it comes from. I have so much time and a lot of things I want to work on, especially with that time. It's a lot easier to ignore that side of me and do things that don't require a lot of energy. I want to read more, write more, knit more, work on my zine, etc. I haven't had a lot of chances to work on those kind of things, but it's so easy to say I'll do them tomorrow because I know I'll have time to. But these are things that are important to me, so I don't know why I ignore them. It can be really easy to do nothing and I don't know how to light that fire and also be socially active as well.