It's freezing outside! My poor little boy is in between hats that I've made him. In the past week or so he's grown out of his bluish-green one that I knitted him in Trinidad & Tobago. So the other day I decided to knit this up for him. The yarn is fingering weight that I had bought in order to knit him a sweater. But then decided that knitting a sweater with fingering weight yarn would be crazy! I'm not up for that right now (and I still haven't even finished the other sweater I started for him...he's going to be too big for that before I finish it...I should get on top of that...).
Anyway, I loved the colors that I had bought, so I busted them out and figured out a stripey pattern for them. I based the hat loosely on a pattern from Chic Knits for Stylish babies. Really all I used it for was the number of stitches to cast on. The pattern is kind of confusing, so I knitted away until it looked big enough and then finished it off. It turned out really cute. It's slightly big, so it should last for awhile. He's such a cute sweet boy!
I think he approves of this snuggly hat, don't you?
Help! It's falling into my eyes!
The greenish-blue stripe is knitted with some alpaca yarn that my parents bought for me in Peru this summer. It's gorgeous yarn! They brought me home two BIG balls of it. I could probably knit up an entire sweater with it! (but again, a sweater with this weight of yarn?? no thank you...not right now) It's super soft and fuzzy. I asked how much they spent on it and my mom told me it wasn't much. Wow! Apparently I need to go to Peru! Alpaca is expensive here.
He sort of looks like a two-month-old thug in this picture...
The specs-
Yarn: Lang Jawoll superwash yarn: blue, light grey, dark grey.
Alpaca yarn from Peru: bluish-greenish-grey
Needles: size 2
Pattern: loosely based on Chic Knits for Stylish Babies, the seeing double section.
1 comment:
Very cute! Those aren't overalls Jack is sporting are they???
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