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Finished Project: Atticus Baby Sweater

Posted on 07/28/2008 by Andrea | Comments (3)
Filed under : Babies!, Finished Objects, Knitting

My mom and I both went to a baby shower tonight, where we both gave the mom-to-be some knitted items. It's so much fun to give knitted stuff as gifts; I would enjoy knitting even if it weren't for all the oohs and aahs, but they are a bonus.

As I was designing this, I sort of dubbed it the "Atticus" sweater in my head, since that was one of the joke names the future parents came up with for their baby boy. I liked the reaction it got at the shower; one person said she thought it should come with a little set of golf clubs.

Someday I might post the pattern, but it really needs a lot of work. It was something I knitted on the fly, and my notes are terrible. It will need at least one or two test-knits before the pattern will make any sense to anyone other than me.

A little bit about how I made this: I used Trekking Pro Natural (wool and bamboo), a lovely sock yarn to work with. I'm infinitely happier with picking up stitches than I am with seaming, so I made this without any seams. And I had lots of fun designing and knitting it. I'm sure I'll be making at least one sweater for my own baby using this basic template and varying the stitch patterns.

Now that I'm done with baby shower knitting, my attention turns to the Ravelympics. I've been "training" (aka, swatching) for Liesl, which I'll be knitting for myself in black Cascade Lana d'Oro (a gorgeous wool/alpaca blend). I'm excited for this pattern because it looks like it'll be a good layering sweater throughout my pregnancy. And after that? I've got a queue of baby knits a mile long.