Category: knitting for our baby

Baby knitting

Out of nowhere two weeks ago, it was suddenly urgently time to start knitting for the baby. And so one extra pair of sock yarn from the closet, and two weeks later, I have these cute little booties.

They aren’t really that florescent – I made the mistake of trying to take photos on a sunny day, and the camera couldn’t deal with the low, bright light. A side view, moderately more accurate colors:

And a pair of little socks!

I also knit a heart – it’s supposed to be stuffed and hung with ribbon on a cabinet door to decorate for Valentine’s Day, along with a whole set of other ones, but now I’ve lost steam.

Hurray for flighty little quick projects. I think the reason for all the small knitting has actually had very little to do with the baby and a lot to do with work. I’m in the middle of a huge, long, complicated first draft, with several more weeks of work to go. It’s daunting. So in the little gaps and pieces of the evening, a quick baby knit to cheer me up and feel like progress. 🙂

Ta-da!

A final photo shoot for the broken rib sweater, now that I finally have the neck finished.


Once I finally started paying attention to this one, it just zoomed. The back took four and a half months, the front and sleeves about three weeks.


It looks a bit floofy and unblocked here (thanks to the super stretchy ribbing), but the shoulders look smooth on, and there’s plenty of good growing length in the body and sleeves.


So satisfying to be done! I love the way this one turned out — simple, soft, and cute. And two final shots with the kiddo, front:

And back:

Sharp little vest

I finished the sweater, finished the mittens, and was completely in the mood to cast on for something new, to the point of possibly making bad decisions. This yarn was an impulse buy two years ago (originally possibly for long fingerless gloves, but I’ve had trouble finding three-color patterns that seemed likely), and since then has just sat. It’s completely the wrong yarn for a toddler — thin, glossy, not exactly machine-washable, and that white is BRIGHT white.


And yet, I felt compelled to use it in little three-row stripes for a v-neck vest, and so off I went. I don’t have a pattern per se, and I definitely need to look into jogless striping, since the first few color changes have been pretty rough, but I’m all excited about it and whirring away the rows.


I should also probably check the sizing before I go too much further, and it wouldn’t hurt to make sure the black and green are color-safe. Such an ill-advised little project, but it was exactly what I wanted to knit, so off we go. 🙂

Mittens!

Funny to post for such a teeny tiny project, but it was such a satisfying knit that I’m not sorry. The kiddo’s hands have been freezing outside recently (it IS December), and so I took myself to Ravelry to search for great toddler mitten patterns. In a bit of wild serendipity, I already had the book that contained my favorite option, so I cast on with the remnants from last year’s pumpkin hat – doesn’t match the jacket (nothing will, it’s an unusual blue) but coordinates nicely. When I started to run out of yarn just after the thumb, I went stash diving deeper and found a mini ball of Karabella Aurora 8 left over from my very first sweater – perfect.

I think they’re so pretty. 🙂 And love that I managed to use up two tiny stash bits in one project. The 16 mos. kiddo, however, wants no part of any such things. He shakes his head no vigorously, he holds his hands behind his back, and if any mittens manage to make their way onto his hands, he pulls them off immediately and casts them onto the ground. Such intense dislike of the mittens! However, leave him alone with them, and you get 20 minutes of this:

Yecch. (He thinks that sound is funny, too.) At least my maternal/knitter guilt is assuaged – I provided mittens, not my fault if he’s a toddler and prefers to eat them rather than wear them. 🙂 At least Kevin likes them, too, so I’m not completely alone in my mitten fondness.

Encouraging — nearly there

We had a sweater try-on (I still need to finish the neck) and I couldn’t be happier with the result. It’s still a bit long, but the K5P1 ribbing is stretchy, and I think this has a lot of wear left in it.

The color is awesome – a variegated muted teal/blue/brown that works really well with the ribbing. Soft, comfy, bright yarn, and no protests from the kiddo as it went on.

So now I just need to pick up stitches round the collar, knit an inch, bind off, and wash, and the project is finally done!!


I’d dubbed this my “Summer Sweater” in Ravelry, and it’s turned into more of a Christmas sweater, but the size is perfect and I couldn’t be happier with the result. Yay.

Knitting!

It’s been ages since I last had anything to share on the knitting front, but I made several inches of progress over the long weekend (enough to finally cast off the back of this 24 mos sweater!):

The yarn is such a rich, pretty blue, and I’ve been enjoying working on it even if DK gauge makes for a slow pace these days. It’s a fast pattern at least (every other row is just knit). Maybe with a bit of momentum, I’ll start burning through it. 🙂

Good thing the first photo turned out, if in a speedy and unblocked sort of way, since my “helper” was quick to come over and snatch it away.