Tonight, rather than casting on a new pattern, I thought maybe I should work on one of the two sweaters that have been in hibernation for a little while. I picked this one - which needed edging and both (long) sleeves - merely because it was conveniently located in a basket on the other side of the room. :)
I started crocheting this little sweater after I knew I was pregnant (this statement is not as strange as it sounds - somewhere upstairs is a baby sweater I knitted last summer that still needs buttons) but before we knew it was a girl or a boy. Once I got to the edging I stopped working on it, thinking that if we were to have a girl I would perhaps edge it in another color and add a crocheted flower and if we were going to have a boy...well, I didn't know what I would do to it if we were having a boy.
And now we're having a boy.
Knowing that I didn't have anything in the same weight (fingering) or in a complimentary color I went ahead and crocheted the edging and two rows of one sleeve...and then I started thinking about frogging it. My reasons are as follows:
- As much as I love the color and know that green is, without a doubt, masculine, I still think it looks a bit feminine. I think it's the fact that it's crocheted.
- It's tiny. I already knitted two tiny sweaters. He's only going to be tiny for so long.
- It's so plain and I have no idea how to spice it up other than with buttons and, while buttons are great, they can only do so much.
Matt likes it but, honestly, the man is so wonderful he'd say that about anything and really mean it. His suggestion was to put it aside for a little while and think about it which is great but it's been aside and I've been thinking about it (or not) for at least a couple of months now. So I decided to take a picture of it and ask your opinion. Should I bother with it at all or just frog it (and not use the yarn to make another Pebble Sweater Vest, I swear)? Or, since it looks like it's only going to take one skein of the four I have, should I just ago ahead and finish the last eighteen rows, slap on three wooden buttons and maybe actually never actually put it on the kid? Or, better yet, does anyone have any embellishment ideas?
Thoughts, suggestions and opinions are very, very welcome!
Thanks in advance!
