Daisy Infant Layette Set
yay scrap yarn!
For the west-bound half of my trip this week I made my first baby layette set. I'm just about finished with my light green sweater I have to sew all the pieces together and attach the buttons -- but that was too little work to bring so much fabric on a plane. I'll finish it when I get home. So instead, I grabbed some scrap yarn to play with on the plane.
This outfit is from the same book: Natural Knits for Babies and Moms. It's actually not listed as a full outfit -- but the daisy's tie the whole thing together. It turns out the scrap yarn I brought was 3 different sport-weight balls of white yarn. Luckily they're all the same guage and shade of white, but definitely different textures. But -- this way, when the baby spits up on it, I won't feel bad 'cause I know its just cheap acrylic scrap yarn. Nonetheless, I'm happy with how it turned out.
I'm working on a fair isle-ish pattern for the next baby sweater I make. I bought some Debbie Bliss Cathay yarn at a cute yarn shop in Bellingham, Washington. I think I'll use the same basic sweater pattern as this sweater -- it'll give me plenty of space to have fun with my fair isle pattern. Hopefully it all lines up and turns out all right!