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November 21, 2009
A jumper for Prudence, aged 3 months
Finished a while ago, but has taken sometime to blog. A nice knit in baby cashmerino, apart from the hood, where the instructions leave something to be desired. Had to frog back to the collar and start again, but it enabled me to redo the hood in my own way, rather than following the pattern, which meant a reduction in seams (which I think is a good thing in baby clothes).
The hood instructions call for stitches to be cast on, and these form the back of the hood, rather than the front- and these cast on stitches are supposed to be seamed to the neck after the hood has been knitted. The hood is knitted as one piece, and is seamed running from the back of the hood to the front, which gives the nice peak at the back. As with all other Debbie Bliss patterns, there are no diagrams of construction.
The bottom two pictures show the top seam of the hood done in kitchener stitch (rather than three needle bind off), and the back of the neck where the hood should be seamed to the back of the jumper after knitting. I picked up stitches along the back of the jumper before knitting upwards- this means no seam to rub against Prudence's neck.
Showing pictures of these specifics because in my hunt around the intraweb for other knitters' methods of getting around these problems, no one actually showed pictures of what they had done.
Posted by scumkitten at November 21, 2009 1:41 PM
Comments
That looks lovely!
Posted by: glittrgirl 
at November 21, 2009 10:40 PM
It's lovely! Great colour combo, and I love what you did with the hood.
Posted by: PrincessPea 
at November 22, 2009 2:18 PM
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