Pollen everywhere!

So it's just that time of year when everyone gets sick because of the pollen, thick in the air, and in a thick layer on every surface.  Amid viruses that attack while we are already down (smarmy things that they are!) we have been doing lots of breathing treatments on the nebulizer for my husband and myself and my youngest.  It always makes me feel more empathy for those people who can't breathe as the norm - I suppose you learn to live with it since you can't live without breathing, but it must be terribly hard.

Despite that, I managed to finish the first sample of a pattern I'm working on for a girl's worsted weight tunic. This was done in my handspun, a superwash merino combed top from Mosaic Moon.

The handspun:

It's not quite right - the sizing seems to be off despite getting gauge and the math, so I'll need to check that.  And I'd like to make some changes to the seed stitch panel and how it expands at the bottom (which you probably can't see anyway, for the patterning in the yarn.)  Then testing of the pattern with actual other people!  Hopefully I'll have this in my Ravelry pattern shop by early summer, so there will be plenty of time to make a cute little tunic for a little girl before winter comes again.