I spent August knitting furiously for two pending babies. The cardigans are both the Debbie Bliss Classic Baby Cardigan, both in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino. I don't have a secret raging brand loyalty - it's lovely yarn to knit with and comes in less anaemic colours than most baby lines, and her patterns are super-clear.
The cardigan for Charlie, my cousin and her husband's baby, is pistachio green and features a bizarro fuck-up on my part which made it sort of v-necked. I panicked about time and finished it, making the buttonholes to suit, and it's a little embarrassing but at least it wasn't a third arm.
My colleagues' baby Maud was born about a week later and her cardigan is a gorgeous deep red, because I reckoned her parents would be forgiving about the deviation from baby palette. I try, at least, to learn from my mistakes, and I managed to make this one button to the top without any unplanned distortion.
Baby knitting is super satisfying because a jumper takes less time and yarn than an adult scarf, but I'm hoping there's a respite in people's good news until I can find a new favourite pattern in the teeny-wee category.
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