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!
Crazy ends! But seeing the sisters together will be so worth it.
What a marathon!
Beautiful sweater.
Yeah, weaving in ends is my least favorite part too! But it is so adorable, your friends will love it!
Those are beautiful! I hope you get pictures with “filling”!
This is amazing! It also has a lot of ends!
soo cute. i have to admit that i actually like darning.
3 days??? Amazing!
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.