So close...

So close to finishing the little baby hooded cardigan that originally started out as a guernsey sweater - ha ha ha, therein lies a story. I start these projects and just keep improvising, it's a thing I have. Nonetheless, this is exciting. I love the cranberry color and the feel of the yarn, so although the first time I knitted the sleeves, I was wondering if it was just that I'm unfamiliar with the relative size and proportions appropriate to knitting a baby sweater, but I had in fact picked up too many stitches for the armscye. I went back afterwards, frogged out, and started again with a better number and now they match. Much better. Now I'm just knitting the hood; I was considering doing just a little collar but since the cardigan seems large enough to use as a little "coat" then a hood seems appropriate given that winter is just about upon us. I've got some really cute little buttons, and I'm going to make some i-cord loops to go around the buttons for the closures. Very excited to be approaching the finish, so I can move on to making the little booties from a pattern I saw. *eek!*