Dis(Traction)

Sometimes, try though I might to simplify, I can't help but make things more complicated for myself.

For example: I have a friend & co-worker who's been out on maternity leave. Suddenly aware of V's impending return, I immediately searched for a lovely knitted gift for her baby boy.
I found (to my ever lasting delight) Rowan Babies.

Honestly: no one has ever been as cute as these little people. I think there's a secret factory somewhere in Britain that just churns them out. But I digress.

Now - on a tight deadline, with roughly similar yarn requirements, I could knit either this handsome, easy, stockinette item:


Or this:



Y'all know what I'm doing, right?



Really: who could be expected to resist?
;-P

(Of course, y'all know these pictures are copyrighted by Rowan and/or the photographer who took them (i.e., not me). All their rights reserved, etc.)