Wednesday, September 15, 2010

A Very Small Sweater

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Minutes after I told my husband we were expecting, we had this conversation:

Him: "So, are you going to knit something for the baby?"
Me: "But we don't know if it is a boy or a girl."
Him: "You could knit a brown sweater."

How could I refuse a suggestion like that? I did almost immediately start a brown baby sweater, but with pregnancy fatigue and pregnancy brain, I didn't get around to sewing on the buttons and photographing it until this week. So, here it is, the baby's official first sweater...

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Knitting details are here. My major advice is to be careful with superwash yarn. I didn't block
my swatch and the sweater developed an unexpectedly floppy texture after washing. But no harm done.

2 comments:

Abbey said...

so sweet! Congratulations. :)

Hilary said...

Wow, that is the best baby sweater I think I've ever seen. Did you hear that we are having a girl? I'm really looking forward to meeting your little one! and to seeing you both!

Hilary