ONE YEAR: LIGHTHOUSE FRONT
On the front is a sailboat gliding past a lighthouse. On the back is a tugboat. The sun and island are continuous. The ribbing at the neck, armhole openings, and hem is shades of blue.
ONE YEAR: LIGHTHOUSE BACK
ONE YEAR: CHRISTMAS FRONT
On the front are Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. On the back is a shepherd and a sheep under a bright star in the starry sky. The sleeves have angels. The neck ribbing is shades of blue. The wrists and hem ribbing is shades of green.
ONE YEAR: CHRISTMAS BACK
ONE YEAR: SUN AND MOON HAND FRONT
This is inspired by Leif's book The Undeniable Kingdom. A heavenly hand holds the sun on the front and the moon on the back. The right sleeve is the moon. The left sleeve is the sun. The neck ribbing is shades of blue. The wrists and hem ribbing is shades of green.
ONE YEAR: DRAGON FRONT
On the front a green dragon breathes fire far from the castle. On the back the dragon has moved closer! The mirrored sleeves are fire. The neck, wrists, and hem trim is alternating stripes of blue and red to yellow.
ONE YEAR: DRAGON BACK
ONE YEAR: FALLING LEAVES FRONT
On the front are two autumn trees losing their leaves in the wind. On the back a pile of leaves is forming. The right and left sleeves also have piles of leaves in shades from red to gold. The neck, wrists, and hem trim is turquoise swirls on dark blue.
ONE YEAR: FALLING LEAVES BACK
ONE YEAR: TOTOROS FRONT
This is inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's movie My Neighbor Totoro. On the front are two small Totoros. On the back the large Totoro is waiting for a bus in the rain. He is so large he intrudes upon the soot spirit trim! The identical sleeves have the ears of the littlest Totoro peeking from flowers. The neck trim is crosses in black on white. The wrists and hem trim is black soot spirits on white. The hem also has a trim pattern of red ladybugs on green. The eyes are sew on.
ONE YEAR: TOTOROS BACK
ONE YEAR: CHURCH WINDOWS
I only have one picture of this sweater, but the front and back are identical. The gothic windows show shades of green and mountains in grey. The foreground is periwinkle swirls on lighter blue. The wrists and hem trim is arches in blues on green. There is a lace pattern at the hem. The neck and wrists trim is picot trim in periwinkle.
ONE YEAR: CASTLE
I have only one picture of this sweater, but the front and back are identical. A castle is silhouetted against a darkening sky. On the sleeves is a silhouetted tower. The wrists and hem trim is jagged lines of blue and green on light green. The neck, wrists, and hem trim is alternating stripes of black and greens.
ONE YEAR: GOOD MORNING FRONT
This is inspired by Marrjan van Zeyl's picture book Goodnight. On the front a little boy is flying up to the spiritual world at night as his tiny village sleeps. On the back the little boy returns, refreshed, for a new day. The right sleeve is the moon. The left sleeve is the sun. The neck trim is alternating suns and moons on turquoise. The hem and sleeve trims are either suns or moons on turquoise.
ONE YEAR: GOOD MORNING BACK
TWO YEARS: BUBBLES FRONT
Here is a scene of summer. The bubbles are huge! The bubbles float from the front to the back. The hem trim is golden swirls on periwinkle. The neck and armhole openings trim is periwinkle picot trim. The hem is bobbles in dark blue.
TWO YEARS: BUBBLES BACK
TWO YEARS: EVERGREENS FRONT
This is inspired by Odds Bodkins' story of why evergreens keep their needles. On the front, red cardinals nestle in the branches of snowy evergreens. On the back are bare birch trees, but the birds still love them! The sleeves show more evergreens and birches. The neck, wrists, and hem trim is green trees on dark blue.
TWO YEARS: EVERGREENS BACK
TWO YEARS: RAINBOW FRONT
On the front the sky is filled with a rainbow. The back shows the retreating storm that caused the rainbow. The right sleeve has lightning. The left sleeve has a bright sun. The neck ribbing is shades of blue. The wrists and hem ribbing is red to yellow rows.
TWO YEARS: RAINBOW BACK
TWO YEARS: AUTUMN ANIMALS FRONT
On the front is a squirrel stashing nuts in a hollow tree. On the back a chipmunk is eating a fallen apple. The right sleeve is a skunk and the left sleeve is a hedgehog. The wrists and hem trim is acorns on shades of blue. The neck and wrists ribbing is dark green. The hem ribbing is alternating stripes of dark green and red to yellow.
TWO YEARS: AUTUMN ANIMALS BACK
TWO YEARS: BEETLES FRONT
When Levin was two, he was obsessed with Beetle cars. On the front the car is red, and on the back the car is orange. The right sleeve has blue Beetles and the left sleeve has red to yellow Beetles. The wrists and hem trim is black and grey wheels on white. The neck and hem ribbing is rainbow rows. The wrists ribbing is black.
TWO YEARS: BEETLES BACK
TWO YEARS: TRAINS FRONT
Levin later became obsessed with trains. On the front an old locomotive is steaming down the tracks, past small houses at the hem and dark cities at the shoulders. On the back are the coal car and the caboose. The sleeves have variously colored Thomas the Tank Engine trains. The neck ribbing is dark blue. The wrists and hem ribbing is green.
TWO YEARS:TRAINS BACK