I finished my first tiny sweater, and learned a lot along the way. The tiny stockinette stitch made for a very stiff sweater, and I wasn't confident about the front band with buttonholes, so crocheted it. I sewed on the only pink buttons I had, but they are too small and pop right back out of the buttonholes. Maybe part of the problem is that the holes are vertical. I need to get some slightly bigger buttons at Michaels next time I'm there.
I've started the next sweater, and this time it will have an all-over texture pattern, and I'll try knitting the front bands with the buttonholes as part of the sweater. I'm not sure yet how I'll deal with keeping the texture pattern consistent as I decrease at the sweater yoke, or how to pre-determine where to put the buttonholes, because I don't know beforehand exactly how many rows the sweater front will be. I'm really not a biMaybe I'll just stick with crocheted bands again.
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