It’s a horrible grey day today, so the light indoors in pretty rubbish, hence the duff lighting on today’s pics. However, that doesn’t stop me doing a happy dance at the progress made over the weekend. 
The steeks have been crocheted and cut. Unfortunately, they’re looking a bit messy and will definitely need facings added. But let’s concentrate on the outside of the sweater for today, as it is much better looking. The actual crocheting took the best part of my knitting time on Saturday. I’m not a natural crocheter, but I can work functional stuff and it does its job, most of the time, even if I’m very slow.
Now the neck steek is cut, you can see that it’s not actually designed for a pin headed baby, but will fit nicely over Rose’s noggin. I’m planning to knit the neck ribbing after the first sleeve so that I don’t get bogged down with sleeve knitting which is what usually leads to knitting boredom for me.
I did have a moment of panic after picking up the sleeve stitches when I thought I’d misread the directions and was merrily knitting away on too many stitches. But after contacting Susan, the designer – who I have to say has already answered one stupid question from me about the pattern with friendliness and politeness and without calling me an idiot, which I was – discovered what was wrong and am now back on track. I will be adding an extra pattern repeat to the sleeves for my orang-utan baby, so I’ve about 15 more rounds plus the ribbing left to go on the first sleeve. I don’t want to tempt fate, so I won’t say anything about possibly actually making the deadline at all. 
