Bolero for 4 year old girl

I am going to start this blog by posting about my most recent work. This blog will feature mainly knitting/crochet projects I have been doing since start of this year but I will include other projects too as time passes.

March marked Anu - our friends Jaiveer and Kripa's daughter's fourth birthday and given that I was on knitting spree I though I have to make something for her birthday. She had seen me wearing my winter hat earlier and she had said its very pretty so I knew she would enjoy and value it :) I had bought a few yarn balls of red heart's pomp-doodle yarn just before it was discontinued because I loved the texture and effect it gave to the few patterns I saw. So I decided to do girl's bolero for her.

Here is another picture of how it turned out.

Here is the information on the yarn I used:
Red Heart super saver, color: Purple Tones Almost 1 complete ball
Red Heart Pomp-doodle, color: Plush-Plum 1/4 Ball

Followed the directions for size 4 (first entry in the bracket) from pattern

The changes I made:
Instead on doing the border in patches, I picked up stiches on circular needle for whole jacket (except arms) and did the circular knitting row once and then another round of binding off. Even for arms, I picked up stiches on double pointed needles and did the circular knitting only.

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