This is a halloween sweater for a certain little girl who is dressing up as Lucy from the Narnia books (before she goes to Narnia). Her mom asked for help finding a vintage dress similar to this reference photo, and I offered to do the sweater up. The actual dress ended up being purple-blue colors, so I changed the embroidery a bit.

I actually had the embroidery floss lying around for a project I’d abandoned. I’m not much of an ebroiderer really, and had no idea how to transfer a pattern to a knit garment, so I ended up freehanding it. The back of the embroidery was interfaced with a knit fusible, which worked really well.

The actual knitting was pretty quick, which is why I love making kids’ stuff. I made up the pattern, and even while having to occasionally rip back a lot (like an entire sleeve), I was done in a couple weeks. I used cascade 220. I don’t recall the color, but it definitely looks period, especially with the tweedy bits. I really love this yarn, it’s so inexpensive and sturdy and warm and relatively soft and there are so many colors.

She is going to look so cute. I wouldn’t mind one of these myself.