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October 21, 2006, 02:15 PM
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Baby, It's Cold Outside CAL - Larger Sizes TOO!!!
Tina (Mom w/a Motif) and I have conspired to start this CAL!!! We have both just recently finished one of these, and we are on our way to making more...why stop at just ONE when they are SO SIMPLE to make. A friend of mine is actually coming to my house this afternoon and we were planning on BOTH making these today! This is a SUPER SIMPLE pattern - it works up quickly, and almost any type of yarn will work, as long as you make guage...do what you have to to make guage. It's that time of year, in this hemisphere anyway, and actually, someone just made one that is going to Miami - it's just thinner, but you know, babies need to always be warm!!! So, who is going to join us??? Come on...who wants to play? Here is the pattern: Baby, It's Cold Outside We are both majorally familiar with the pattern so can help when needed, so just ask. What I plan to do is with each finished sweater to place a link here in this first post so that anyone that looks up this sweater will have LOADS of pictures to see! Ok!!! Cool beans! ETA - To do Larger Sizes, please consult this post. ETA - Darski is additional NEW COHOST!!! Thank you Darski!!! ETA - Thank you Kristen for compiling a CHART we can use!!! FINISHED PROJECTS The Donna (with hat and MaryJanes) and here (with earflap hat and booties) and here (with flower pin) and here (as a pullover) barbn77 and here with model! The Donna with a modified version for a size 18 months just me with a sampling of ones she has made in the past! KnicKnac and here it is with the hat and mary janes! KnicKnac's Friend - Hat included! Jessi Darski - Two Tone with Leaf Button Flyinghooks - Instructions included for Size 6 minwife0f4boys - Lea Darksi - Instructions for a size 3 hmcquigg - Heidilyn lilybean31905 - Kristen - Size 8 amalapert - Laruie Mom w/a Motif - Tina Liberty - Theresa lynie - Lynda - Ladybug Style mizduck Darski andrealikestocrochet Seneca and Scooch - Sock Monkey Style! KnicKnac - Size 7 lilybean31905 - Kristen and here supafreak - with Fun Fur jchllm (Lisa) Darski - BICI (this one is done vertically!) and here (adult version) with the finished version here hseger (Heather) Mom w/a Motif (Tina) - Bear BICO, one in Lion Boucle and ... the very first one she did. (she doesn't know what kind of yarn it was, some German yarn she found at the Goodwill) HoosierDoola (Susan) - Three different BICO's!!! Tina did another one! HoosierDoola did ANOTHER one! Clare - beautiful in white! BusyMomof7 - it's on her blog here. Last edited by KnicKnac; February 22, 2007 at 05:17 PM. Reason: Adding Links to Completed Projects - Feb 22, 2007 
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October 21, 2006, 02:46 PM
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How funny, I am walking out the door in a few minutes to get some yarn for some Christmas projects including this sweater for my soon to arrive nephew.
I'm in! I will probably be starting this in a couple days. I'm planning on buying homespun for the first one. What yarn works well for the edging? Also I'm trying to figure out a way to do it without using buttons. Buttons and babies that like to put things in their mouths scare me. Any ideas???
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October 21, 2006, 02:49 PM
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Just to let you know, there are two ways to do the buttons, one is with real buttons, but the other is with yarn buttons. I didn't feel bad about the yarn buttons at all. And they are super simple!
As far as yarn for the edging? I would pick something contrasting to the Homespun...Homespun is usually multicolored so pick something that brings out one of the dominant colors...also, I would use a soft yarn like Caron SS or RH Soft Yarn...it would then have the same sort of texture as the Homespun. Hope you join us!
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October 21, 2006, 03:03 PM
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I was just going to ask what to substitute in place of Homepun, than I seen your post about double stranded WW...i'm going to use a Red Heart 1lb I was going to use as a blanket but don't like how it was turning out...it's a lt. pink/ md. pink/ green varigated
 off to start this
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October 21, 2006, 03:34 PM
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Woo Hoo!! (I have done two so far. I am almost done with the second one.) And I went and bought some Homespun for a third one. They work up so fast, I will actually be ahead of the game for baby shower presents! (For once.)
 This is gonna be so much fun!!!  Barb, do you have a picture of what you have so far? Because I honestly didn't like how mine looked when I was first doing it, but now that it is finished, I love it. Tina Last edited by Mom w/a Motif; October 21, 2006 at 03:36 PM.
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October 21, 2006, 04:04 PM
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Tina - yours is really pretty....I started with 2 strands and it felt horrible...so i'm still using a 6.5 mm hook and a single strand of WW i've done the 1st 10 rows already, it helps when the recipiant is asleep and the 2 yr. old get's tossed in the tub so mom can sit on the bathroom floor to finish the 1st 10 rows LOL i;ll see if I can put up a pic..BRB
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...sweater001.jpg Last edited by barbn77; October 21, 2006 at 04:08 PM.
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October 21, 2006, 04:18 PM
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 I do that a lot! Sometimes it's the only time I get to crochet... Actually the two strands I was using added up to probably one strand of the worsted weight, so I would just do one strand WW maybe and see how that feels?  I haven't tried it yet with just WW, so I'm not sure on that...Quote:
Tina
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I'll join, it looks like it will fit my 5 mon. old 
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