What happened before : Cosy (you) During Winter, Capucine kept growing (No ? Yes !)… So, early in March, wanting to anticipate a little, I decide to knit her a new cardigan, one size bigger (8 yo for my 5-years-old girl…), in a thinner and lighter yarn to make a spring-summer cardi.

Back in October, Capucine also needed a new sweater… (Pictures were taken last week, tough, completely off-season…) Why do kids grow up ? I barely finish one sweater that they already need a new one one size bigger… Who am I kidding ? I love knitting for them, it’s fast, and, as long as they appreciate it, I should enjoy it because, some people say it doesn’t last long…

Let’s go back in time a little, a few months, more precisely in October, when Fall was here, cold settling in and Capucine and Oscar desesperately needed new sweaters for the coming winter ! I dove into my (long) pattern-to-try-one-day queue on Ravelry : different patterns from Brooklyn Tweed Kids collection were there and I was thinking  I wanted to make one of them…

In March, I was lucky to test knit the lovely baby set created by Karen (Oomieknits) : Mavis. She published it in April and I’m a wee bit late to show you my project. It is not because I didn’t finish it : it was a quick knit, but I didn’t took pictures of it until yesterday (we were on vacations before)… But here it is !

For a long while, I think i already told you, I was hesitant in front of Stephen West’s patterns : some nice constructive idea, but the colors choices on the sample and the staging were too excentric for me. I couldn’t see myself wearing any of them… Then, doodler arrive, and all these butterfly wings showing on Instagram and Ravelry, in many different color combo (not all excentric), made me dream and want to knit one… I realised my Doodler for myself ! And I fall in love with it ! Et I still love wearing it, as well as Pilou and Capucine, which sometimes creates some strange situation : “Where is my shawl ?” “Which shawl ?” “My Doodler !” 3 Shall i remind you I knitted it for myself…” “Yes, but…” etc. From that moment, I decided to pass behind the flashy colors and to look for other realisations, in order to rediscover them in other colors and to try to see myself in them… I was decided to knit another one of Stephen’s pattern : I just had to decide which one… I hesitated to participate to the november MKAL (Mystery Knit along), but I didn’t have enough yarn in my statsh, so I didn’t make it. But, shortly after, I saw the Vertices Unite of my friend Mimi and I knew it was the one I was meant to knit !