My sister is pregnant with her third child (her first son) and I thought it would be fitting to knit something for the li'l one. Because I think colour-coding babies is stupid and even harmful, I refuse to knit blue for boys and pink for girls until they are actually old enough to request such colours. Since the sweater incorporates a honeycomb stitch pattern, yellow yarn seemed to be most appropriate.
The yarn is Novita Tennessee (100% mercerized cotton) in a warm yellow colourway that has now been discontinued. It's been awhile since I knitted such fine yarn, and it seemed to take forever, even for such a small garment! Stitch for stitch, I think the cardigan I finished last had more of them!
The pattern is Judy's Grandmother's Baby Sweater by Judy Spector, published in Greetings From Knit Café by Suzan Mischer. It's a cute pattern with minimal seaming (yay!), but like I said, it seemed to take an eternity, which is unusual for baby items. Perhaps it was the honeycomb pattern; I kept making false starts and frogging the first 10 stitches or so of many rows as I had difficulty keeping track of which row of the pattern I was at. All in all, it's nice that it's a bit different from the ruffly, cutesy baby sweaters that pattern books are full of. In fact, it has almost a Japanese kimono feel to it, don't you think?
As an instant gratification project after such a fine-gauge one, my next item will be knitted out of super bulky wool. Doubled. Woo!
(P.S. Does it make me a bad person that I saw some yarn that I had never paid attention to at the LYS*, noticed that it was heavily discounted and only then frantically tried to figure out what it would be good for? I ended up buying 10 skeins.)
*) Local Yarn Store, for the uninitiated.
