FO: Tiny Sweater Season

Due to the fact that I have lots of girlfriends due with babies this year, I’ve entered into what I like to call Tiny Sweater Season. I work two jobs (I’m a social media/digital strategies and an adjunct professor) so my knitting time is limited and baby blankets take up a lot of time. As much as I would love to knit every baby a blanket before they’re born, it doesn’t always happen. So in lieu of giving nothing handmade (because I know at this point they all expect me to knit their babies something…) I always know I can whip up a newborn sweater over a weekend. My favorite pattern is Baby Sophisticate {free}, but I’ve purchased the Child Sophisticate pattern as well in order to get all the size ranges. It’s worth the cost and you can really modify this pattern a lot to whatever you like!

My latest sweater is for a friend’s second baby, an adorable little girl. What’s funny is, I knew the mom wasn’t into girly color palettes after her first daughter (I knit her a blanket with orange and purple as the color palette). I intended on knitting  the new baby girl a blanket but had issues with mismatched yarn and gauge so I decided to whip up a cardigan in this deep magenta and a soft orange. When we went to visit the baby, this was the color palette for the big sister’s room! LOL So I knew I hit a good color combo. I actually now know baby girl has a bright green room and I hope to whip up something fun over time in a bright green color palette for her but I don’t feel a ton of pressure to make a blanket right now when I’m working on a couple of other larger projects.

Although I know they grow out of these cardigans pretty quickly, it’s still fun to make them and figure out new color combos and stripes and buttons…and now I can make sibling cardigans in contrasting colors and two sizes. So that when big sister outgrows her cardigan it can get passed on to the little sister. So expect to see more tiny cardigans this year, I’ve got a lot of adorable babies in my future.