Last year, I knit Faline a pink sweater for Christmas. I forgot to get a picture of it before gifting it, and have missed a couple of chances to get a photo of her wearing it this winter. By careful searching of photos taken during our big family Christmas gathering, I was able to find the sweater in a corner of one picture. So I carefully cropped it and am using it here so you can see the sweater I'm talking about.
The pattern is Sunday Sweater; it has a lacy design on the front, making it a feminine sweater. It is the same pattern I've used for Faline's sweaters for three years now. I've never heard any complaints, so when it's time to make her a new, bigger sweater, I grab that pattern and make the next size (or two) up.
Apparently that was all well and good until I made both her younger brothers sweaters and used a different pattern (Little Shore). For them I made plain front cardigans. You can see Buck wearing his in the photo below.
Well, recently Faline wore her new pink sweater to church. I commented on how nice she looked, and how the pink of the sweater matched the pink accents in her (springy) green dress. I then asked it if was a comfy sweater, and if she liked it.
Very solemnly, she replied that she did like it, except "Amma, you need to do something about the holes".
Confused, thinking maybe I'd left too big of a gap in the underarm when picking up the sleeves from the body and casting on a few extra stitches so that the upper sleeve isn't too tight, I asked her where the holes were.
She pointed to her chest and all down the front of the sweater. The lacy design. Which, when compared to her brothers' sweaters apparently didn't look like a girly feature, but like holes. Holes!
I guess when it's time to make Faline a bigger sweater, I should go with a gender neutral plain cardigan and not another Sunday Sweater. Wouldn't want holes in the next one.
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