back to work yesterday to hear the good news that one of my staff has had a baby girl - the first girl for me to knit for in 3 years!
So this morning I grabbed a ball of pink 4ply, picked out a frilly lace cardigan pattern, found my small needles and set off for work. I got ready to cast on for the back and for a newborn size (finished chest = 16") they want me to cast on 316 stitches!
Think I'll be surfing the net in my lunch hour to look for something more suitable!
Later Entry
Once the caffeine had kicked in I realised (before Fred pointed it out!) that of course it needed the extra stitches for the frill - it was just the shock of casting on that many for a 2 day old baby!
I decided to start with a front to see how I got on - all I can say is that there must be easier ways of making a ruffle - still once I got down to a more manageable number of stitches the stitch pattern for the rest of the cardigan is easily memorised.I'll persevere tomorrow and see if I can get to a photo stage with any of it.
Posted by Yvonne at May 23, 2006 08:46 AMI am glad to see that I am not the only one who doesn't always think straight... Frill or no frill, that's still a lot of stitches for a teeny little thing (but I suppose it's also a lot of love).
Posted by: Amelia at May 24, 2006 07:44 AMit's not the casting on that would bother me, it would be the counting!
Posted by: minnie at May 24, 2006 04:07 AMI suppose thinking on it that it is so many stitches in order to give it the frill. I assume that it does reduce down further up?
Posted by: Fred at May 23, 2006 10:30 PMWow! I think that would even wrap around me several times and I'm no pixie!
Posted by: Sue at May 23, 2006 08:44 PM316/28x4=45"!!! for the back? One of my favourites is the EZ Gull cardigan found in the almanac book.
Get knitted have some pink cotton fleece on sale now.
Hope you survived the scrum OK. Take care of yourself and good luck with finding a pattern.
Posted by: Brigid at May 23, 2006 10:17 AMThat's way too many stitches! Whoa!
Posted by: Mary de B at May 23, 2006 09:36 AM