Not quite a newborn sweater

I have just finished this very cute sweater by Nikki Van De Car, Maile, ( http://www.whattoknitwhen.com/)
and even though, apparently, my guage was off (stupid guage) and apparently, I didn't have enough green tweed cotton,(stupid stash yarn)...it still turned out well, inspite of itself.  I always think that a well placed accent color stripe (panicked effort to save said sweater), and perhaps different colored collars and cuffs (another effort to stretch green yarn,all be it a foresight) always add a bit of whimsy to an already fantastic design!  I say, never fear a pattern taking on a life of it's own (constantly eyeballing that last, ever dwindling skein of precious green yarn) and forge onward....to a really cute, 12-16 month sweater that started as a newborn sweater!

The Beginning....

I am writing to you from the very hot, very dry, midwestern prairie.  Currently I am wondering how I have thus far managed to not shrivel up into a raisinesque version of myself.  By not doing so, I then marvel at all of the plants that can survive in a desert climate, all the while praying for rain.

I knit, cook, knit, read and knit out here on my house on the prairie and I even dabble in design as well.  My name is Jenny Linden, and I am a knitter.  I define myself this way because there isn't much in this world that can't be fixed by knitting in my opinion!  I feel the world should be covered in wool somehow, and I am working on a plan as we speak to make wool a household staple.  I am currently expecting my first child and he/she will never be in need of a sweater....or blanket...or hat....you get the idea!