Perfectly Fitting Sweaters and Pretty Little Cities

I'm a procrastinator or procraftinator... either way, I have this habit of leaving things right up until the very very last minute and that's exactly what I did with D's sweater.  I had it about 90% there for approximately 5 WEEKS.  All I needed to do was to pick up and knit the shawl collar, and sew on the toggles... I will admit, I'm a little bit scared of picking up stitches so I procrastinated.  Well, I don't really know what I was waiting for!  As soon as I had the fire lit under my bottom (at around 10PM the night before our anniversary), I absolutely flew through it...

But the thing about leaving things till the last minute is, you can't anticipate the little things that can derail your plan.  For me this time, it was my sweet, loving mister uncharacteristically requesting that we go to bed early! EEEP! And for good reason because I woke up (very early) to this:

 

Whoops.  It would've been a really sweet touch to be able to present him with his sweater at breakfast too... but it wasn't to be.

So at lunchtime, I sat outside and bound off the last few stitches, weaved in ends and sewed on the toggles... I packaged it up (along with a super secret surprise present I also got him)... and I waited (not so patiently) until dinner.  Dinner was delightful.

And after dinner, I finally gave him the sweater and to my intense relief, IT FIT and HE LOVES IT!

He's hard to keep still long enough for a picture but SQUEE!

Now, after a big project like that, I just lost all sweater mojo so I started (and due to a week of sick leave) finished this adorable little number:

 Designed by Satsuma Street on Etsy!  Paris is close to my heart, not only is it one of my absolute favourite cities that I was lucky enough to visit in the winter of 2010/2011, my best friend now lives there!

And I enjoyed it so much that I started another Satsuma Street design: 

This one's a little closer to home... I'll give you a hint:

XOXO

Bee