the blue blog archives: big bootay

My project Rhinebeck baby sweater was almost done - just a little picot edging to do - and I had a good bit of Koigu leftover from the last skein, soooo I thought some matching booties would be perfect. I searched for a good all garter stitch pattern and serendipitously found Kelley's post on the Baby Bumpers blog with Debbie Bliss' garter stitch booties from her Quick Baby Knits book. Hey, I've even got that book - awesome!

I cast on, knit, knit, knit (okay, I'm getting bored with the garter stitch) and it's coming out humongous. So I decided to put the bootie on hold for a bit and start the picot edging on the sweater. Then I find that the edging, in additon to taking forever to do, is eating up yarn like, well, like I eat up stuff these days really.

posted by alison at 9:39 am | in koigu baby coat

Comments

it was great to meet you at rhinebeck!

Posted by: mama-e at October 25, 2006 9:55 AM

In the picture you posted of the Koigu before you started knitting the sweater, you pictured 2 skeins...is that really all it took? Or did it take more? It would be awesome if one could get a whole baby sweater out of 2 skeins of KPPPM!

Posted by: Bertha at October 25, 2006 10:01 AM

Bertha, in that post, there were two unwound skeins in the first picture and one skein already knit in the second picture. So the newborn size is going to take me three full skeins of Koigu.

Posted by: alison at October 25, 2006 10:04 AM

I had the same problem with that bootie pattern. The bootie it made would fit an 2 year old! I had to completely redo the pattern to get it to fit a baby foot.

I thought it was just me. When I got divorced years ago I lost my gauge! My knitting loosened up so much I just had to knit a swatch, use the smallest needle possible and recomput every pattern. Great learning experience, it let me to Elizabeth Zimmermann, but not much fun.

Posted by: CarolH at October 25, 2006 11:03 AM

Nothing wrong with a big bootie, Alison. Don't let anyone tell you different.
And may I also say: Jiminy Cricket you're a fast knitter!

Posted by: Em at October 25, 2006 11:28 AM

Absolutely right, Em, nothing wrong with a big booty unless it's on a tiny baby bootie! ;0)

Posted by: alison at October 25, 2006 12:39 PM

Thanks for the info! 3 skeins isn't bad at all...

Posted by: Bertha at October 25, 2006 1:19 PM

I really love that color. Can't wait to see the finished project!

Posted by: Sheri at October 25, 2006 6:54 PM

please tell me this is a buckaroo banzai reference! hooray!

Posted by: lisa at October 25, 2006 7:15 PM

Really, who needs a big bootay anyway.

Posted by: Tracey at October 25, 2006 10:13 PM

You're right Lisa - you and my mom are probably the only ones to catch it! ;0)

Posted by: alison at October 25, 2006 11:25 PM

I can understand getting sick of garter stitch but those sure are cute booties. Have you seen the knit kitty & Piet patterns on the Berroco site -very cute (http://www.berroco.com/knitbits/knitbits_158_H.html).

Posted by: Donna at October 26, 2006 12:30 AM

Amen to that...though I don't really do Picot very well.

Posted by: Orli at October 26, 2006 8:19 AM

Funny - I can't do booties for the life of me. I'm a good knitter and crocheter but booties always come out h - u - g - e.

The sweater is gorgeous, though - lucky baby!

Posted by: jau at October 29, 2006 11:52 AM