Audrey Susan

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!