Amazing what you can get done driving around between saturday activities. I cast on a sleeve as we left home today and had about an inch to go when we returned, maybe less. It’s ages since I have made something so simple, or at least that’s how it seems at the moment. Mindless knitting can be so very pleasant.

I am liking this colour more as I knit with it but it definitely needs a little sprucing up, something to make it a little more feminine. I have some cute lady bird buttons, but only four of them and the pattern calls for six. I can skip the bottom two (or three) button holes easily enough but I am still tossing up whether to go with the lady birds or use plainer buttons and embroider or duplicate stitch some flowers onto the fronts with scrap yarn. Heck I could do some intarsia flowers but that would require making charts and more than a little concentration so it’s unlikely to happen. Anyway do you think I should make the fronts with just three or four button holes and decide later which option to take or do you think I need to decide in advance so I can do 6 button holes if I am going to go for the floral version? I guess another way of looking at this is - do you think a baby girls cardi needs to button all the way down? I know I was often annoyed by cardigans that closed only at the neck when Isabelle was wee, but I think I would have been happy enough to button to the bottom of the chest rather than all the way to the hips.