Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bulky Baby Cardigan

I was recently gifted three balls of  Nashua Handknits' Painted Forest, which amounts to 165 yards of super bulky weight. I decided to find out if it were enough to knit a cardigan for the baby. I figured I could extend the body and arm lengths, if need be, with some other yarn. And that's what I did. Here it is, a quick cardigan, sized 9-12 months, in lovely, thick, variegated wool.
 
The pattern is my own, a generic bottom-up raglan, with seams (I had no circulars in 7.5mm size).  I picked up twice the number of stitches, using fingering weight yarn, at the body and sleeve bottoms and knit a small length of st st with a picot edge. It is going to make a great, warm, top layer for our baby this winter, inshaAllah.

6 comments :

  1. This is REALLY fantastic! I love it so much, and my favorite feature is the extending fingering weight sleeves.

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  2. How cozy-looking, and the colors are lovely! You create such pretty things - always an inspiration :)

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  3. What a good idea and the yarn combination is really perfect.

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  4. I really love the underlayer you added on the edges, what a great idea!

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