Category: knitting for our baby

Sleeves!

Inspired by the knitting Olympics, even if I’m not officially participating, I’ve been getting a ton of work done on the February baby sweater. A zillion stitches that add up to a few millimeters of progress at a time. I don’t know what possessed me to make this out of sock yarn – really should have stuck with DK for the lace. But the second sleeve is done, and I’ve picked up the body and done a few rounds.

So, hurray for progress.

On the needles

Now that I finally have enough to look like something, here the beginnings of a February sweater for the new baby.

I’m a few rows away from the arm/chest split, which should speed things up a bit. Lace on sock yarn just isn’t speedy, especially when I seem to knit at most a third of a row in any one sitting. 🙂 Love the yarn and the color, and can’t wait to be a bit further along. I’ve knit two of these as gifts, it’s so much fun to be knitting one for our little girl.

Bonnet

I finally found ribbon and threaded it through to make ties, completing this simple, cute little bonnet.

The sizing is way off – what was supposed to be a newborn size turned into more of a two year old size. (Still haven’t re-measured to determine if the pattern or my gauge is at fault.) So we’ll just lay this one away for a few seasons. Makes me thing of the Elizabeth Zimmerman maxim for such situations: babies grow. I’m still happy with it, even if it’s way too big. Soft and old-fashioned and simple.

Little pink sweater and bootees

I finally found great buttons over the weekend, and was able to do the last finishing on a baby project that’s been sitting for almost a month now. Wonderful little newborn wrap sweater, with matching Saartje bootees.


Great buttons (dark grey with flowers) in two sizes for the sweater and shoes.


And such teeny tiny little shoes. Are baby feet really this small?


This yarn was a treat to work with – MadelynTosh sock yarn. So soft and such pretty colors. I don’t know if these are particularly long or short stretches for each color, but it managed to avoid that stripey, patchy look that variegated yarn often gets when it knits up. I’m so glad I have another project’s worth of this to work on!

The first “girl” knitting project

A little aqua, lacy flower hat for a newborn, being modeled by a grapefruit. (A melon would have been better sizing, but the grapefruit was what I had in the fridge.)

Such a fun, satisfying, excellent knit.

I had to go and find new projects for my ravelry queue – all of the baby sweaters I had were for boys. It is so fun to be able to go and pick out girl patterns, too. A whole new world of knitting potential. And while that blocks, here’s the start on the new Garter Stitch Baby Kimono.

It’s just a lot of knit stitch for many more centimeters, especially knit in sock yarn. But the yarn is amazing. (My first time knitting with Madelyn Tosh, and now I see what all the fuss is about – so soft, and such subtle, sophisticated color variation. It’s lovely to work with.)