I finished sewing on the buttons at lunchtime and at dinnertime was with my friends handing them this sweater for their 4 month old little boy.  Talk about cutting it fine!  But I got it done and they really liked it, particularly the way you can unbutton it on one shoulder to make it easier to slip over baby’s head.  The v-neck looks very smart too.

Little Humphrey Sweater by Sublime

The pattern is the Little Humphrey Sweater from The Second Little Sublime Baby Cotton Kapok DK Book (628) and is made with Sublime Cotton Kapok DK in Porridge.

The yarn was nice to knit with, although slightly splity.  It feels nice when knitted up though and blocked well.  The pattern was very straight forward to follow and I didn’t come across any mistakes.

Highly recommend if you want to do a baby knit!

Having finished the tunic dress and Hulu Lulu, I ought to crack on and finish the Scandinavian blanket, but no, I’m itching to begin a new project – something for my friend’s little boy.  I haven’t knitted a baby jumper for ages so I’ve enjoyed browsing through all the new Sirdar and Sublime baby patterns.

I’ve finally settled on the Little Humphrey Sweater from Sublime’s Second Baby Cotton Kapok Book 628.

I hope my friends will like it.  I thought it was quite boyish and quite trendy worn with a white t-shirt underneath like in the photo!

I’ve had quite a lot of time to work on the baby hooded cardigan this week and it’s coming along quite nicely. I did have one hiccup, in that I realised I’d misread the sleeve length and they were too long. So I unravelled and shorted one, and will do the other this week.

I sewed the shoulder seams of the two front pieces to the back in mattress stitch (I still can’t get over how nice seams can look with it!) and have started to knit the hood itself.

My greatest achievement this week was making button holes for it though. I’ve never done them before and the instructions just said to rib 12, cast off 2 etc, then on the return row to rib 13 and cast on 2. As I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing, I turned to my faithful Knitters Bible and read up on button holes. They said that when you get to the point you have to cast on, to turn the work, cast on with the cable cast on method, and before you put the last loop back on the left hand needle, to bring the yarn forward, and this stops gaps.

And it seems to have worked. I have quite neat button holes which aren’t too tight. Yay me!

This is a picture of the hat I knitted for my friend’s baby Emily. The photo shows it being modelled by my doll – not Emily!

It was knitted with Sirdar Snowflake Magic yarn. The pattern has a matching jacket too… so cute!

I didn’t find snowflake the easiest yarn to work with and as I was shaping the crown I had to knit 3 together and it was very tight!