Saturday, June 03, 2006

In the past 15-18 days, along with the vacation and yard work, I knitted some more little baby sweaters. They are all knitted with baby blue Sirdar Snowflake double knitting yarn on 4 mm needles (yarn is not as stunning as the Sirdar Ultra light, but it is soft and fuzzy and fun). Usually, the needles recommended are much larger size ones, and I wondered how they would turn out on smaller needles. There are two for 0-3 month baby and two for 3-6 month old, one frilled edge at the bottom and one ribbed. I think they turned out pretty good. 

Each of the sweaters have dark blue buttons. I was chatting with my sister over the weekend, and she reminded me that buttons and ribbons are a choking hazard (she would know, she is mum to two boys). I knew that buttons were, but ribbons too! Beats me, why we still have patterns for babies that need buttons. Another weird thing about this pattern was the sizing of the finished garment. The 3-6 month frilled edge (pic: bottom left) sweater is 1/4 inch larger than the 0-3 month ribbed edge (pic: bottom right). What gives! You mean to say that for this pattern the baby grows only 1/4 inch in body in 3 months. Oh! Well, I just follow the directions.