baby wear

I was stalled on the orange sweater and needing some inspiration so I started another project, a baby set for a co-worker.  This project has a real deadline.    Since she is going to be surprised by the baby's gender, I went with a gender neutral, all colors, variegated yarn and fairly plain sweater & hat patterns.   The sweater looked so small that I didn't want to start the sleeves quite yet so I started that hat and then that looked really small.  My nieces are 7 years old so it's been that long since I've spent any real time with an infant.  I've forgotten how small new borns are!  I brought the set into work and consulted with other co-workers (while I was knitting at lunch) who said it was fine.  I'm so glad that I don't have to take it all out.  The smallness of everything means that it doesn't take very long to knit, but I still didn't want to have to take it out.  I'm not in love with the way the colors are pooling at the bottom of the sweater (more obvious on the back of the sweater which I conveniently didn't photograph)  but anything this small is cute by default.   

Comments

[Vicki]

Awww. Cute! I love the yarn.

[Becca]

Nice job! It doesn't look too small at all. And my philosophy on baby things is, "it will fit at some time, for awhile."

[Stacey]

Very cute. How long did that take? I know its small, but it still looks like a considerable amount of work.

[BigLug]

I love making baby stuff. It's like instant cuteness.