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Sometimes (*ahem* often) I am too much. I am a person filled with big ideas, and rarely the sense to assess the time reality of them. My determination, and my ability to stay up late into the night, usually sees me through, so I learn nothing and continue onwards. I know you all love me for this quality though, right?! It is this ‘too much’ that brought Tin Can Knits into being!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Antler<\/a>
Hunter is developing her own fashion sense and this black sweater fits!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I set out this year to NOT<\/strong> make the kids a new sweaters in the fall. They are lucky enough to have suitable wardrobes to keep them warm, and their sweaters from last year either still fit, or enough have moved down the line, keeping everyone well sweatered. BUT…<\/strong> when Hunter requested a black sweater and I happened to have a sweater amount of Brooklyn Tweed Quarry<\/a> in my office, it seemed reasonable to knit one sweater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Antler<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hunter’s sweater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since I had this black Quarry on hand, I had to make some modifications to the Antler pullover<\/a>. My gauge was 3.5 sts per inch, so I knit the 2-4 year size in order to get a 29.75″ chest measurement (that leaves Hunter with a little room to grow). I then customized the lengths to suit Hunter. For more details, we have a tutorial that describes how to knit a garment at a different gauge<\/a>. On this Antler pullover, I got carried away while cabling, so there is an extra Antler cable that makes the yoke a smidge deeper, but no one is complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a picture begins to form…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once Hunter’s sweater was done a picture started to form in my mind. Coordinated black sweaters (the other two were knit long ago) and perhaps… perhaps they needed hats to top it all off? You see how this happened right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bodhi is wearing the Gramps sweater I made for Jones<\/a> a few years ago and Jones just barely fit into the Tenderheart sweater I made for him<\/a> 2 years ago. Tenderheart will pass on to Bodhi next year, and Bodhi’s Gramps will pass on to cousin Ellis. The knits get a lot of love around here!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gather<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had JUST enough of the beautiful Rainbow Heirloom Sweater<\/a> in ‘auld lang syne’ to make Jones a Gather<\/a> hat. I couldn’t just let that magical colourway go to waste now could I? I whipped up a Beloved<\/a> for Bodhi in Brooklyn Tweed Arbor<\/a> in ‘firebrush’, an excellent bright red, I fear she will soon think herself too big for a bonnet! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Beloved<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cartography<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For Hunter’s hat I went over the top. From my colourful stash of Arbor<\/a> I pulled out the most festive colour scheme and away I went! I could knit the Cartography hat<\/a> (and sweater for that matter) over and over and never get tired. I love the tiny patterns and the changing yarns. It brings me joy to knit it every time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so, this picture was created. They are dressed in warm woollies, made with all their mother’s love. Every gift will have this photo on top this year, but seeing these three, with big smiles, in knits I made them is a big gift to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I am too much. I am a person filled with big ideas, and rarely the sense to assess the time reality of them. This year my plan to *not* to knit sweaters for a Christmas photo kinda failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474659,"featured_media":11679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[697557662],"tags":[193006686,118084,145320,15607,316982600,54277,1114945,17341969],"class_list":["post-11668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-knits","tag-antler-sweater","tag-beloved","tag-cartography","tag-christmas","tag-gather-hat","tag-gramps","tag-kid-knits","tag-tenderheart","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1z4ty-32c","builder_content":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.tincanknits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0780-2.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2474659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13041,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions\/13041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}