04.12.07
Baby Duck Sweater
I have finally finished it! Since I am in the middle of several projects at once, it’s really been ages since I posted a real, finished craft project. Well here it is! I used the trusty baby wrap-around sweater pattern from Chez Florence. The peach sweater for Evelyn Grace was so pleasing, I thought I’d stick with a sure thing.
Next on the list is to tackle some baby booties with the same yellow yarn and then send these off to the parents-to-be. It is surprsingly difficult to find cute bootie patterns (so many looked bunchy or too geometric or something), but after searching and searching, I did find a few that I liked:
I’ll try these out and review the patterns as soon as I stock up on the correct needle sizes. Knitting for all these babies requires the tiniest needles – I suggest choosing wooden ones, if anyone else is in this boat. The metal ones tend to slip right out. We’ll see what I can find: it’s always a work in progress!
Laura said,
April 13, 2007 at 3:41 am
Oh it’s really cute, friend!
rachel said,
April 13, 2007 at 8:48 am
Thanks, Laura! I still need to block it, because it’s not exactly the uniform shape I’m looking for, but for the most part, it’s DONE!
Lillian said,
April 14, 2007 at 8:40 pm
This is very cute, and I can imagine that it will fit the baby a lot with this pastel colour.
Safiyah said,
September 25, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hello Crafty Rachel,
I stumbled across your blog while looking for a pattern in English for knit Mary Jane booties pattern published in Marie Claire Idees. I saw a finished picture of these booties on saartje’s knits blog, they are adorable and the perfect thing (next to Saartje’s of course slol) and I was wondering if you have this pattern in English? I can send you the link to the picture.
Thanks!
-Safiyah