I was poking around on the internet looking for baby things, basically looking for a pattern to look forward to when I got finished trudging through the blanket, when I found a pattern for knitted bunting which are, apparently, knit flags with letters duplicate stitched on. As soon as I saw the pattern, I knew I wanted to make them with the kids' names to hang above their beds. And so I did.

I worked on this mainly at work when I worked at the hotel. It was nice busy work - small, not really hard to figure out where I was if I got interrupted, no complicated construction. I loved making these, I really did.

PATRICK.

PENELOPE.

A close up of some of the flags. I made all of the flags for both names before I stitched the letters on, and then I attached them all with applied i-cord.

Close up of the decreases and duplicate stitching. I'm quite proud of the decreases. I'm not going to go into it in-depth, but I knit stupidly and it's hard to do decreases and increases correctly. Not hard like physically hard, but I have to stop and think with every decrease or increase, 'Okay, I'm knitting like this, so I have to do this and this to make the decrease look the way it's supposed to look.' The duplicate stitching on Patrick's name is admittedly awful because I did his first, but I got it better with Penelope's.

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Yarn: Sugar n' Cream in cream, green, and light purple. I really don't think I kept the label, but I wish I did just to keep the color names.

Needles: CPY bamboo size 8 straights