Marsha
Apr 12th, 2010

Baby knits

My oldest friend (that is, the friend I’ve had the longest) just welcomed her second child at the end of March. I started knitting for this baby late last summer.

First I decided to knit a blanket. I made up this log-cabin design as I went along, and managed to knit this entirely from stash. All of the yarn is pima/tencel DK weight; about half of it is left over from Sylvia’s Anouk pinafore (for which I was very cautious and aggressively over-ordered yarn), and the rest is left over from other projects.

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I actually finished the blanket over Thanksgiving weekend and thought I was done. But about a month ago I came across some Wool-Ease in my stash, in a nice muted mauve/pink color, and decided the baby (which we now all knew would be a girl) needed a sweater, too. This is the Simple Boatneck by Debbie Bliss, my favorite go-to sweater for babies and toddles. And of course once the sweater was done I needed to make a hat to go with it, right?

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3 Responses to “Baby knits”

  1. # Chrison 12 Apr 2010 at 9:23 am

    That sweater and hat are adorable!

  2. # Katie Jon 12 Apr 2010 at 4:21 pm

    What great gifts, Marsha!

  3. # Marshaon 15 Apr 2010 at 9:13 pm

    Thanks!