Baby Things, I Have Made . . . Baby Things?
The zeitgeist arrow, it points to Very Pregnant Women.
(I don't really know what to make of it, other than to make a personal check and add "biological clock" to the already-long list of timepieces that do not work around me.)
However it does occur to me that, knowing a Very Pregnant Woman, this is probably the only time in my life that I will ever have the chance to knit baby things. Not that I am terribly anxious to knit baby things at all, but, you know, the principle of the thing. I asked Ms. Æ, the expectant mother in question, what she was missing after the baby shower gifts were all accounted for - and the answer was booties. Handmade baby booties would be welcome.
I could not simply make a pair or two of standard garter stitch baby booties and let it slide. No. These, I proclaimed, would be Baby Booties Of AWESOMENESS.
Did I succeed?
I like to think so. But the final test will be after I send them off to Ms. Æ and little Miss Tegan, later this week. (With a stern note about not overexposing infants under two years of age to wool, lest my Baby Booties Of AWESOMENESS bring on an inadvertent wool allergy. O THE HORROR.) I will leave it up to the parents how many of those jester toes get to have obnoxious little bells sewn on them like the pattern suggests.
Next year, Tegan gets a plush knitted Dalek. While she is still too young to protest at having geekery foisted upon her. You can depend upon this.
Knitterly details:
Pattern: Elf Shoes by Pamela Wynne
Size: Infant
Yarn: Webs Mill Ends And Closeouts Spinrite, assorted colors
Needle: US 9/5.5 mm
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Pattern: Old World Booties byGryphon Perkins
Size: 4"
Yarn: Webs Mill Ends And Closeouts Spinrite, Caribbean, Ruby, and Teal
JaggerSpun Main Line 3/8, Copper
Needle: US 2 1/2/2.3mm
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Notes: I rather suspect that I could have knit the Old World Booties with US 6/4 mm needles or something similarly large, and the texture would have come out nice and nubbly all the same. And I wouldn't have stitch definition either. Elf Toes is a pattern I became instantly smitten with, and I'm plotting to make the adult-sized version whenever the weather gets serious about being cold.
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(I don't really know what to make of it, other than to make a personal check and add "biological clock" to the already-long list of timepieces that do not work around me.)
However it does occur to me that, knowing a Very Pregnant Woman, this is probably the only time in my life that I will ever have the chance to knit baby things. Not that I am terribly anxious to knit baby things at all, but, you know, the principle of the thing. I asked Ms. Æ, the expectant mother in question, what she was missing after the baby shower gifts were all accounted for - and the answer was booties. Handmade baby booties would be welcome.
I could not simply make a pair or two of standard garter stitch baby booties and let it slide. No. These, I proclaimed, would be Baby Booties Of AWESOMENESS.
Did I succeed?
I like to think so. But the final test will be after I send them off to Ms. Æ and little Miss Tegan, later this week. (With a stern note about not overexposing infants under two years of age to wool, lest my Baby Booties Of AWESOMENESS bring on an inadvertent wool allergy. O THE HORROR.) I will leave it up to the parents how many of those jester toes get to have obnoxious little bells sewn on them like the pattern suggests.
Next year, Tegan gets a plush knitted Dalek. While she is still too young to protest at having geekery foisted upon her. You can depend upon this.
Knitterly details:
Pattern: Elf Shoes by Pamela Wynne
Size: Infant
Yarn: Webs Mill Ends And Closeouts Spinrite, assorted colors
Needle: US 9/5.5 mm
[ rav ]
Pattern: Old World Booties byGryphon Perkins
Size: 4"
Yarn: Webs Mill Ends And Closeouts Spinrite, Caribbean, Ruby, and Teal
JaggerSpun Main Line 3/8, Copper
Needle: US 2 1/2/2.3mm
[ rav ]
Notes: I rather suspect that I could have knit the Old World Booties with US 6/4 mm needles or something similarly large, and the texture would have come out nice and nubbly all the same. And I wouldn't have stitch definition either. Elf Toes is a pattern I became instantly smitten with, and I'm plotting to make the adult-sized version whenever the weather gets serious about being cold.
This entry was originally posted at http://chronographia.dreamwidth.org/83744.html and has
comments. Please comment there using OpenID.