Ellie's Striped Sweater

I challenged myself to make my niece, Ellie, a striped sweater. She's multi-sized and I was hoping to make a sweater that would fit her better than the ones off the shelf, but it just seems her speed at growing supersedes my knitting/designing speed.

Yarn:Knit Picks Shine Sport
Color: Cosmopolitan & Black
Content: 60% Pima Cotton & 40% Modal
Care: Machine Wash & Tumble Dry Low
Needles: US 3 / 3.25 mm
Gauge : 6.5sts /1" 8rows/1"
Size: 2T length / 4T width

Used the Contiguous Method (Rav Link), but more stuck to some instructions on a blog that doesn't seem to exist now, unfortunately.  It's similar to raglan in some ways, but it is suppose to make less of a break in the design and the slant of the shoulders is suppose to be more in line with the slant of an actual humans shoulders.



Here is a front view, the style makes a bit of a slanted shoulder, but I think mine should slant less.


The back.


Here are the false buttons.  They are just there for looks, they aren't functional.


Inside are the snaps, which how it really comes together.


I sewed pink ribbon on with black thread to stick with the black and pink theme.


The ribbon is a little wonky because it was a little difficult for me to get the knitted fabric not to stretch.











I love how the inside looks and am thinking about make a sweater that is inside out for the color.


Wookie thinks pink and black look wonderful on him!






Overall, babies just grow too fast! I love a good challenge though and am thinking up the next attempt!