The amazing tale of .....The Seamless Raglan Pullover

At last I finished Vaasu's pullover!

I hate making pullovers, sweaters, cardigans.....

and more of those

REGULAR stuff

you expect knitters to be knitting!

But everytime I'd make something my mom would go....

'Why don't you make something for your baby,

You keep wasting your time

 in making all that nobody is ever going to wear!'

WELL,

That's how I actually got this started.

BUT THEN,

It had to be something I'd not tried before.....

and interesting enough to hold my

wandering mind on one big project for long.

So went hunting.....

and got to know about seamless pullovers.

"That's it!"

My mind called,

And I was sailing on uncharted oceans......

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It's a top down knit starting from the neck,

I couldn't make out how much to cast on!

Then as a lightning flash,

I knew that anything that crossed the test of slipping over

 the head of my big headed boy would do!

And any flawed numbers would hide in the ribbing!!!

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To add an element of that

SPECIAL

personal touch

I put that ever so simple CABLE in the center...

And Then....

went round and round

Till I was going nuts!!!

I excitedly called my mom and told her

That your daughter has at last done the 'right thing'

But

when she saw it

her jaw literally dropped...

She could hardly make head or tail out of it!

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That is what gave me a new energy

 and the enlightenment

that I was indeed on the right tract.

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Then came the bodice.....

So large,

 it could hide almost every secret Vaasu could want to hide!

Followed by the sleeves....

He could be wearing this thing well past his childhood!

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Then,

One fine day,

I ultimately cast off the stitches of this

Herculean task,

And put the little boy inside.....

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I was overjoyed to hear my boy say..

"Mummy, I want to wear it to school

and  tell my teacher that you made it for me."

Still sceptical,

I asked him again.....

"Do you like it ,son?"

And he answered

"Yes, this is good."

Oh, can you ever imagine the immense sense of

joy and fullfillment I had!

STILL

but one litmus test remained.....

Would my mother approve of it?

When she saw it...

Her jaw dropped again...

And when I told her that it was

absolutely seamless,

with no stitching to mar the beauty of the pullover,

She pulled me and Vaasu up to her bosom and hugged us...

whispering in my ear...

"I knew it...

You could do it,

You just had to believe in your inner strength

and ability...

THIS IS A MASTERPIECE!"

 Hope you enjoyed my story!

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In the end,

I would like to extend a warm and sincere acknowledgement to  my

CIRCULAR NEEDLES

without the selfless help of which,

neither would the pullover,nor the tale be possible.

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