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Audrey Susan

July 19, 2008 by Peggy

On Monday morning our good family friends welcomed brand new baby Audrey Susan.

Since the gender was a surprise I hadn’t done any baby knitting since the February Baptism Sweater and Bonnet.

As you can imagine, I started into baby knitting as soon as I heard the wonderful news. First off the needles was a little sister sweater to match Greta‘s that I knit in April. I had mentally been planning to knit this with the scraps, provided the new arrival was a girl… and it was!

I scaled everything waaaayyy down and knitted it a bit differently. I knit the original in the round as a bottom-up seamless raglan. The baby one I knitted back and forth as a top-down seamless raglan. It ended up with short sleeves for ease of dressing a squirming baby, and because I ran out of the teal yarn.

Specs: Baby sweater loosely based on Printzess by the Berroco Design Team. Here on Ravelry.

Yarn is Berroco Comfort, knitted on US sz. 7 needles.

Timeline: Knitting on Tuesday, embroidering on Wednesday, darning in ends on Thursday.

I was reminded while darning in ends the reason why I intended to skip this sweater in the future…

Holy Darning Needles, Batman! 68 ends. Yes, I counted – 68!!! No respectable baby sweater should have that many ends. Fortunately I used enough of the scraps that I shouldn’t be tempted to knit this again.

Welcome Audrey! Thanks for giving me an excuse to knit sweet little things!

Posted in Uncategorized | 8 Comments

8 Responses

on July 19, 2008 at 6:58 pm | Reply KM

Crazy ends! But seeing the sisters together will be so worth it.
on July 19, 2008 at 8:00 pm | Reply Jess

What a marathon!
Beautiful sweater.
on July 19, 2008 at 11:27 pm | Reply bockstark.knits

Yeah, weaving in ends is my least favorite part too! But it is so adorable, your friends will love it!
on July 20, 2008 at 7:00 am | Reply Panhandle Jane

Those are beautiful! I hope you get pictures with “filling”!
on July 21, 2008 at 1:08 pm | Reply tiennie

This is amazing! It also has a lot of ends!
on July 23, 2008 at 3:21 am | Reply knititch

soo cute. i have to admit that i actually like darning.
on July 24, 2008 at 9:09 pm | Reply Jeanie

3 days??? Amazing!
on February 24, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Reply Laura C.

The sweater is beautiful! I’ve been knitting for four years and I still have a lot to learn. I would like to know is there a website to show a person how to weave loose ends for this type of technique? I am curious at to how it is done with so many threads.