It’s Tulip Time!

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It’s Tulip Time!

February 26, 2008 by Heather Joins The Round

With apologies for the photo quality (which is about the best you can get using this camera), may I proudly present the Tulips Baby Cardi:

Tulips

Is that not the cutest thing ever? I am so pleased with it! I’m having a hard time restraining myself from Fed-Xing it right to California so my friend can immediately stuff her four month old into it before he outgrows it, but I’m resolved to bring it to SnB tonight so that all present may admire it’s many, many fine qualities.

Here is another bad photograph of the darling thing:

Two things to note in the above photograph: 1) Check out the fantastic neckline!, and 2) Yep, I purled two stitches in a row when changing color from lime to taupe. Oh well!

Stats: Tulips, A Colorful Cardigan For Baby (Ravelry Link), knitted in Cotton Ease lime, taupe, and lake. It took maybe a third of a skein of each color for the smallest size. Pick Up Sticks, a Canadian yarn shop, sells this pattern as a PDF. I knitted this for my friend B’s baby. Well, really, I knitted it for him so I could have the pleasure of carrying him around while he was wearing it at Stitches West, but our plans changed and we didn’t end up going. No matter, it was a fun knit and I love the colors, props to this raveler, brozomama, whom I copied.

I worked the edging and wove the body’s ends before casting on for the sleeves, which is an approach I recommend for those of us who don’t enjoy finishing as much as we should. Oh, and I had to go down to a size 2 needle for the cuffs to get them a balanced size. Otherwise, 7s for the body and 4s for the I-cord edging.

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on February 26, 2008 at 10:29 am knittingunderwater

Sure is purty! I like the little transition rows, it has a nice effect. Hurry up and get it on that baby!
Anne in Calgary
on February 26, 2008 at 11:50 am margene

Too cute! Can’t wait to see it.
on February 26, 2008 at 12:45 pm Eileen

So cute! You chose beautiful colors and did great knitting work.

Sorry I can’t make it to SnB tonight to see it.
on February 26, 2008 at 1:16 pm Lauren

It is so cute! I love the detail on the color changes.
on February 26, 2008 at 1:50 pm Cayenne

I agree that the purled row at the color change is really cute. I thought you did it on purpose until I read farther on. What a nice gift!
on February 26, 2008 at 2:24 pm Cheryl S.

I got so excited when you said “Tulip Time”, ’cause tulips are my favorite flowers and I thought you were going to have some flower eye candy. But I’m not too disappointed – the sweater is adorable, and I love that detail of the purls on the color changes. Excellent job on the neck!
on February 26, 2008 at 3:44 pm Stitch-n-Snitch

Verrry cute!
on February 27, 2008 at 7:14 am michaele

Cute! There’s one lucky kid out there somewhere. Love the colors.
on February 27, 2008 at 8:28 am Artmomma

That is adorable! And Cotton Ease is so nice and soft on babies, and also indestructable.
on February 27, 2008 at 8:30 am Tulip Time Too | Cabled Sheep

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on March 13, 2008 at 12:07 pm HDW

OMG that is soooo cute……….it looks like an easy knit too!???? I am in love with EZ’s BSJ cause it is brainless knitting after the first couple…..is this the same sort of knit? Or is there more thought in it???