My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I love Crème Brulée, Sci-Fi, 70 degree weather and reading a good book in bed. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine Petite Purls and raising my two daughters. This website chronicals my adventures in both parenthood and design.

Them Apples

My latest FO and pattern (free!) availible at www.petitepurls.com is “Them Apples” a sweet and simple cardigan inspired by my daughters love of apples. When I was a little girl I remember in pre-school playing with a giant apple toy, I even have a photo of it someplace. Apple was one of BG’s first words (her first word was “uh oh” but apple wasn’t far behind). Allegra and I both wanted to design something for the premier issue of petite purls as our goal was to make available as many cute baby patterns as possible so we both wanted to contribute. I wanted to create something that was super affordable and accessible to knit (Lion Brand Cotton-Ease) as well as easy and quick to knit (hence the nice fat gauge). I went for cute little belled, half-sleeves because kids don’t really need long sleeves in summer. It’s perfect for popping on your tot when you go into a restaurant that is sub-zero even though your child is dressed for the 90 degree weather outside. Or on a cool summer night when your out at the park or by the lake and it’s nice and roomy so it should last into early fall.

I was so happy when I found the yarn at the store, it was the perfect green and red, the green was that super pale color of one of her favorite varieties of apple, it was perfect! I have a few cute out-takes from the photo shoot that made me laugh.

She was being so goofy for the photo-shoot. My husband kept having her do silly stuff with the apples so it was a bit hard to capture her.

I tried a different method for knitting the top down raglan, the increases stop a few rows before you pop the sleeves off, and I really liked how the spaced increases looked (there is a stitch in between them instead of just increasing on either side of a marker). This was my first time trying duplicate stitch and it was way easier then I thought it would be! Not nearly as scary as I thought, and way easier then intarsia if you ask me. 

I hope your little one enjoys wearing it as much as mine did, she actually got mad when I tried to take it off and she was very pleased with the little apple buttons I found.

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5 Responses to “Them Apples”

1. Carol says:

   2009/06/17 at 6:47 am

   Adorable…hope I get a chance to knit this one!
2. Karin says:

   2009/06/17 at 8:29 am

   The website and all the projects are beautiful. Well done to all of you.
   My Miss T is going to be the toddler with the most handknits. Love, love them apples.
3. Jewel says:

   2009/06/17 at 4:50 pm

   I love this pattern I can just see it over a little poka dot dress for my grandaughter. And what a cute pictures of BG, I love the one pushing the wagon.
   Thanks!!!!
4. Allegra says:

   2009/06/17 at 8:57 pm

   i love the second pic of BG! too cute!
5. April says:

   2009/06/20 at 1:31 pm

   You are a designing dynamo! Look at you go, girl =) Very very cute design, and yes duplicate stitch is mucho easier than interasia, like WAY. lol

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