Those "five hour" baby sweater patterns are really something -- five hours for Elizabeth Zimmermann maybe, but not for me. Knitting the sweater took less than a week, but getting up the gumption to do the finishing work took a couple of months! This cardigan is destined for Paul's cousin's sweet new baby boy.
pattern: baby boy 5 hour sweater, by gail bable
yarn: rowan ryc cashsoft aran, ~ 2 balls
needles: us 9 (5.0) mm
notes:
The pattern doesn’t include buttonholes in the instructions! I added a
buttonhole at the beginning of row 4 (K2, YO, k2tog, then follow
pattern as written), and repeated every 10 rows.
The precious embroidered, cloth-covered sheep buttons had been hoarded in my stash for years -- I'm happy to use them at last. I'm trying to get over the idea of saving the "good" things for later.
4 comments:
I love the sweater, but the buttons are the sweetest things I have ever seen.
Those sweaters are never five-hour ones for me either. And now my kids and their cousins are all getting bigger and want Harry Potter Weasley sweaters, which are basically a simple pullover but with their initials embroidered on the front. So when my in-laws' kind friend randomly offered me a knitting machine that she wasn't using, I jumped at it. Now I just need to learn how to whip up the sweater parts on the knitting machine. :)
It's very cute, five hours or not.
For a knitter, you have to go with machine-washable!
I love the 5 hr sweater...funny story...made one for my newborn nephew & when he got it (as a newborn) it was too small! We have big babies in my family! (9+ #)...I'm sure the neice regifted it.
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