The End...and Beginning Again

 And so, that's the end of that.
The project that started months ago, the mighty SO MANY BABIES project, is finally at an end.
The final project, for Sister-in-Law H's twin girls, is finally done.
The original pattern was the Christmas Babies, but as discussed before I didn't want to do set-in sleeves that small. So instead we ended up with Hundreds, which is only one size, but it all worked out fine. It seems to be a proper newborn size, so there you go.

And here they are!

Blocking on my living room floor.

As a reminder, we did the Snowman and the Christmas Tree. I took many pictures of the finishing up process. First, the easier of the two:

The basic white sweater for the Snowman.

The custom red-and-white scarf, complete with terrible pom poms.

The basic white cap and carrot nose.

Figuring out the placement of the little snowman hat.

The final look of the Snowman hat.

Basic black buttons finishes up the Snowman attire.

We don't know which twin will be which, Niece K or Niece B. We saw them over Thanksgiving and were planning on doing a little photo shoot, but babies don't understand posing and have already shown a disinterest in any position that doesn't involve being held by another human. That's their prerogative right now, I suppose, for now. I'll try to post more pictures when available. 

Anyway, the Christmas Tree:

The full monty: white buttons for contrast.

 I was originally thinking about light bulb buttons, but I was told Sister-in-Law H was glad for sweaters they could wear on a daily basis, rather than just for special and Christmas. So I decided to go for the less thematic but more user-friendly white buttons.

The base of the hat.

This hat was obnoxious. The ridges are a few rows of stockinette and picot edging - cast on 2 and cast off 4. Endless. But cute in the end.
Decorating the hat:

The materials.

My mother-in-law gave me these beautiful hand-painted metal buttons.

Can't be a Christmas tree without lights, right?

For application, I put all the buttons in my broken knitting bowl and had my Tall Hubby pull random buttons for each row.

It turned out so cute!

And so, that's the sets. I'm really happy with how they turned out, and really happy to be able to move onto other things.
...Even though other thing will likely continue to involve small sweaters for my two little nieces. There are worse things :)