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July 25, 2006
Baby Lace
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Design: Lydia's Lace baby dress from Kids, Kids, Kids
Yarn: Knit Picks Shine Sport in Orchid
Needles: US 5 (b/c gauge doesn't really matter with baby clothes)
Begun: May 20, 2006
Finished: June 15, 2006
Details:
- Once again, working on baby clothes is dynamite! You finish up so fast, even if it takes me over a month to get pictures taken and posted. This one is for a cousin's fresh out of the womb little girl.
- Knit Picks Shine is a fabulous cotton yarn. It is a 60% cotton, 40% modal blend, and is unbelievably forgiving. My stitches are all perfectly even and beautiful and the lace stitches pop with this yarn as well. And it has that delightful sheen to it that looks so gorgeous with this orchidy purple.
- As far as the pattern goes, I had no problems except for the sleeves. You can see in the full shot picture that there are bunching in certain places. The first go-around of seeming had me screaming in frustration, as there was about 1 inch left of sleeve and no where to attach it. Please note that the picture in the book has no such bunching or cute runching at the top. I am left once again with giant baby sleeves. So I ripped out and tried to accomodate for the fact that I absolutely did not want to reknit 2 sleeves by making a bit of poof all the way around the sleeves through gathering as I seemed. Not my idea of totally pretty but it works. Note to pattern designers: what the heck is up with making baby garment sleeves so HUGE??? I could have knit probably 1/2 inch less on both sides of the sleeve and been good to go. Half an inch is a lot on a baby arm!
- The buttons. Oh, how whimsical and delightful! They are compliments of my mom's super fabulous button stash. Just don't ask me where she got them. Probably some quaint little embroidery store somewhere.
- I highly recommend this book. Some of the patterns are a little, um, uncool. I would never put my kids in them. However, most of the baby stuff is down right adorable and I plan on knitting quite a few from items from here.
All in all, a wonderful little shirt that can be worn over pants or a skirt and is long enough to keep from creeping up on a snuggly baby belly.
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Comments
Your banana bread post makes me want pumpkin bread. But I only make it in the fall! Your blog is beautiful!
Posted by: Jo | July 25, 2006
What a beautiful baby knit! I'm sure it will be well treasured! :)
Posted by: Amy Artisan | July 25, 2006
That little shirt is so cute! Love the buttons. I agree about KnitPicks Shine - I made an Orangina out of it last summer.... come to think of it, I have a couple of balls leftover and a cousin's baby girl just born recently. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Lisa | July 25, 2006
That is too cute!
Posted by: Christie | July 26, 2006
adorable! i love the color and the little buttons. it's perfectly girly.
Posted by: carrie m | July 27, 2006
That little baby knit is so cute! I've actually never used the Knitpicks Shine before. It looks like it turns out well.
Posted by: Erin | July 27, 2006
I love the baby clothes! I too have been knitting baby items and they work up very quickly! Whenever I make banana bread here at home it is a huge success!
Posted by: Stephanie | July 31, 2006