Baby Surprise Jacket
Written on December 8, 2008
I have finally cast on for a Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann for a friend’s baby. Luckily the baby isn’t expected til April so I am doing quite well. The yarn is 4ply weight, 80% superwash merino, 20% bamboo that I dyed a while ago. Here is the progress so far.
The yarn is very nice to knit with and has held up very well to being undone and re-knitted. My first attempt was laughably large. I admittedly don’t have any captive small children around to measure but the first attempt would have almost fitted a small adult. I think my error was adding in way too much ease. I am calculating my own numbers for this since the original pattern is written for yarn knitted at 6 sts to the inch, and my yarn gives 8 sts to the inch. I think it is looking ok so far. I like how the colours are coming out too.
Filed in: Dyeing.
BSJ is looking lovely! I made my first one over the summer holidays out of handspun (looks smug), and they are great fun – I did have to use the line by line instructions along with the pattern though. Many more to come, I feel.
Lisa x
December 8, 2008 @ 2:57 pm