WIP 2 - Baby Gifts

Well I did mention them earlier. Baby knits are always nice to do as they are so much dinkier than grown up sized sweaters. So I may in fact finish this before my green summer top. I don't think it will fit because he was somewhat larger than "first size" at birth and I refer to my earlier post re: tension....

But I had a single ball of yarn left and no other babies on the horizon so I stuck with it. There is only the buttonhole band to do and making up. It's kind of muddled up and modified from the pattern. I could only find one plain(ish) raglan sleeved cardigan pattern in my pattern mountain - I truly detest setting in sleeves - and it had a hood and a weird fairisle twisted stitch pattern across. Plus it was a reject pattern as my mum acquired a lot some years ago and it had no yarn quantities printed on it. So that, the second size, and the single ball of wool led me towards the contrast band. I really like it.

To add to the weirdness I picked up the stitches for the neckband before the buttonhole band was done. That's why it is on a needle in the photos. An overly complicated way of spreading out the loose ends. I hate sewng in loose ends and all the loose ends were on one side of the cardigan and there were oodles of them as you can see! Next time I put stripes in the ribbing it will be for a sweater - problem solved. One final photo with the loose ends hidden from view (well almost).

Well, I suppose I should actually do some knitting now....