Knowing that not-easy-to-care-for scratchy wool yarn would not be the best choice for a baby sweater, I made a baby sweater. I guess I was ready to start a new project and the sample swatch I knit up with this yarn worked out perfectly for the bobbly sweater I had been wanting to make. I love making bobbles and it's a good thing because there were plenty of them in the pattern. At one point, I taught myself to knit backwards so that I wouldn't have to turn the knitting three times for each of the five thousand bobbles. Anyway, here's the sweater.
I used a pattern from Classic Knits for Kids by Debbie Bliss. At the time, she was my all-time favorite knit designer! A picture of the sweater is on page 29 and the directions are on pages 65-67.
I saved the sweater forever and ever - for when Danny and his future wife would have a baby girl. Danny eventually married and he and his wife had two boys, and it seemed that their family was complete. Then, one day when their youngest was four or five, they surprised everyone by announcing they were having another baby - a girl this time. I was excited to finally send the "yarn" back to Danny. That was just a few years ago - probably at least 20 years after I had made the sweater. Surprisingly, there were no moth holes in it. Yeah, mission accomplished!
