A Wee Stripy Flax

Posted by: Peanut in MyBlog on Sep 13, 2016

Tagged in: Knitting , Baby

Pattern: Flax by Tin Can Knits
Yarn: Tanis Fiber Arts Green Label Aran Weight in Chris Grey, Sunset and Gold
Size: 0-6 months (but came out a bit bigger due to my gauge)
Yardage: I was using leftovers but probably about 1 or maybe 1.25 skeins (should have weighed it)
Needles: 4.00 mm and 5.00 mm bamboo
Ravelry link here.

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I’m so happy to be posting about this little sweater. I made it for the first baby of a dear friend who now lives far away. I knew baby was due to arrive sometime in late August but didn’t know the exact date and early in August started putting together a little box of goodies for baby and mum. Then I realized I absolutely had to knit this baby a sweater.

With little time to spare I started to look for a pattern. It had to be quick so I settled on a few things: it had to be worsted weight or heavier, it had to be in the round with minimal purling, and it had to be the smallest size. It didn’t take me long to settle on Flax. I have quite a few partial balls of Green Label in my stash and I thought these colours would suit an Ottawa baby. I skipped swatching and substituted intuition and a belief that the sweater was more likely to come out bigger than expected than smaller and that’s not really a problem given the way tiny humans grow. Since I was doing stripes I left out the garter panels down the sleeves. I thought the garter would look a little messy with the stripes and it made things go a little faster too.

I finished up this sweater and blocked it on 15 August. I wonder if I was somehow tuned in to this baby because I learned later that she arrived the very next day. The parcel of goodies didn’t reach her until a couple of weeks later but it makes me smile to know that her sweater was finished in time.