the blue blog archives: frogs and snails and puppy dog sweaters

The puppy dog sweater from Roo Designs is underway for reals! After making a swatch of the intarsia design with students in my knitting class, I discovered that a friend will be having a baby boy, soooo....

A little navy blue Phildar superwash and some leftovers from the stash and I was off! The back knit up in a flash. Some of the Roo sweaters have a placket in the back for the smaller, baby sizes but the puppy dog sweater did not. I think it makes the sweater much more practical to have a placket, so I sort of made one up (and now that I look at it, I definitely made one shoulder longer than the other - doh! - I'll fix that later...). I charged ahead to the front, eager to start the puppy, but the white yarn I'd pulled from my stash wasn't quite white enough. Poor puppy will be on hold until I can get into the closet where the deep stash is located and scrounge up a better white.

posted by alison at 10:19 am | in ra ra roo

Comments

Is the placket just to give the baby more room in the back to move? I really should make a couple of baby sweaters. Nothing really beats them for feelings of knitterly accomplishment.

Posted by: Seanna Lea at June 2, 2010 11:00 AM

I just ordered the tractor. I have a lot of the other Roo designs but after you blogged about it I thought the tractor might be a favorite!

Posted by: Bonney at June 2, 2010 12:24 PM

Yes, Seanna Lea. Opening the placket makes the neck wider so you can slip it on a baby much easier. Little kids hate it when you try to pull a snug crewneck over their heads!

Posted by: ALISON at June 2, 2010 1:18 PM

Do you have any hints for how to knit intarsia & not end up with an inside that looks like a bowl of overcooked spaghetti? What I have done on sweaters for little ones (where the pattern doesn't account for their ginormous heads) is to just knit front & back shoulders an inch or so longer on one side & knit button holes in the back shoulder. You can sew buttons on the front I find that much easier than trying to place a placket in the back. Also, if you knit the front shoulder too long, you can just overlap it a bit when sewing up & it won't show. You could do both shoulders like that & there would be plenty or room to get the sweater over gigantic baby heads.

Posted by: Donna at June 2, 2010 6:05 PM

Deep stash...I love it! Looking forward to the progress on the little puppy dog. I have a little grand niece who loves puppies.

Posted by: chloe at June 2, 2010 6:27 PM

Little girls have such outrageous taste; I viewed it as my job, as a parent, to inculcate good taste with only occasional lapses into the pink, the purple and the sparkles!

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