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The third of 3 FOs

March 21, 2015 By grumperina 11 Comments

The sad thing is that just as I’m catching up and sharing the last of these 3 recent FOs, I’ve already finished another project. It’s so difficult to keep up!

These pictures are from February 28th, so Sonya is just shy of 5 months old here.

Pattern: Wee Cria by Ysolda. This is the second Ysolda pattern I’ve knit (Wee Envelope was the first), and I have to say, I really like the way Ysolda’s patterns are formatted and written. A++. In this particular pattern, I really liked watching the top of the sweater form from the two shoulder rectangles, as well as the slipped-stitch buttonband, which lies flat, as promised.

I knit the 4th size, 9-12 months, though this sweater’s chest circumference ended up being much smaller than expected, so it fits Sonya nicely at 6 months. I changed the sleeve caps a bit to make them less poofy – both because I didn’t want them poofy, and because my yarn was very limited. For the buttonholes, I worked the “reinforced eyelet” from Montse Stanley’s Knitter’s Handbook.

Yarn: Regia Bamboo, color 1066, rescued from a long-ago UFO, Sidewinders socks. I only ever finished one sock, and found myself frequently petting it and thinking, this yarn would make a fabulous sweater for a baby. So, when I came across this pattern, I frogged the finished sock, and recycled the yarn.

Because I had exactly 2 balls of yarn, no more and no less, I tried to get as much mileage out of the yardage as possible by knitting the sleeves last after weighing the yarn to divide it equally. The sleeves are thus about 3/4-length, which is actually pretty convenient for a baby, because they always drag too-long sleeves in food and such.

Needles, gauge and finished dimensions: I didn’t note the needle size, but it must have been something small because the gauge is 8 stitches and 11 rows per inch. Yup, it’s another fingering-weight baby sweater! The sweater dimensions are: 17″ chest circumference, 11.5″ shoulder to hem, and 3″ armpit to sleeve cuff.

I had a difficult time finding just the right buttons. These pink ones are “craft” quality, but the color matches nicely, and the size was right. I knit faux pockets, and they are lined in purple sock yarn, though you can’t see that from the photos.

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  1. Kathleen Anderson says

    March 22, 2015 at 1:48 am

    beautiful! Baby and sweater.

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  2. Leslie says

    March 22, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    What a lovely baby girl! Her sweater is beautiful too.

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  3. Judy S says

    March 22, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    What a cutie, and those beautiful blue eyes, too! Nice sweater; the color is perfect on her!

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  4. Joanne N. says

    March 22, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    She’s beautiful and so is the sweater! The colorway really suits her.

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  5. Marjorie McLaren says

    March 23, 2015 at 12:58 am

    Lovely sweater! Sweet baby!

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  6. CreeksideKnitter says

    March 23, 2015 at 2:23 am

    Great call on reworking a lone sock. S’hard to imagine a more pleasing project for your sweet little one.

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  7. Geri says

    March 23, 2015 at 8:29 am

    Really I did try to focus on the lovely sweater, but couldn’t help being drawn in by those beautiful blue eyes. And the bunny feet ! Serious cuteness!

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  8. kmkat says

    March 23, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    Adorable! Nice sweater, too 😉

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  9. technikat says

    March 24, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    That’s a darling sweater on an even cuter baby! The buttons look just right, pulling out the pink in the yarn. You might get a few months out of the sweater because babies tend to grow faster in length than girth.

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  10. yahaira says

    March 25, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    I think Sonya is looking into my soul in the last photo. I love her little face and I love that little sweater.

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  11. denise f says

    March 26, 2015 at 9:00 am

    i may or may not be sending my daughter the link to your blog just to say, hey, being a g’ma would be lovely.

    Reply

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