I knit most of this while I was on bedrest in the hospital.

It’s about 40″ square, a variation on the Cable Lace Stole pattern. It’s a wool/silk DK from elann.com, worked on #8 needles.

ARRRRR! Here be the pirate sweater. It be size 6 months.

The pattern is from Adorable Knits for Tots. The only thing I changed was the striping on the sleeves; the stripes are four rows instead of eight. The yarn is Peter Pan DK, which is washable and very soft.

Who doesn’t love toddlers dressed like muppets? Here is the fairy godchild, who is growing up entirely too fast, in the very very silly jacket I knit for her.

It’s Fun Fur (that yarn is DEAD to me now after eight skeins of it) knit together with a strand of matching sport yarn. It started off as the fur anorak on the cover of Knitting for the Pampered Baby, and then I split the front and added big heart buttons so it didn’t have to go on over the head. It’s pretty flipping cute.

I knit this for my friend’s baby this week. Dennis says it’s because I think of all children as mannequins for my knitting and sewing projects, and babies are the best because they don’t know when they’re wearing a totally ridiculous sweater.

The chart is provided; it’s 62 stitches across, and could also make a really nifty hat or adult sweater with some tweaking. You could just add some extra empty seats to Tom Servo’s left.I don’t make any promises about the quality of my charts, so if you feel like tweaking something, it’s probably an improvement.

Baby sweater in action:

Technically, he is wearing it backwards, and you know what? He does not care! Because he’s a rebel!

Say, is that Manos: the Hand of Fate behind him? Is it summoning dark forces, or just keeping him from rolling off the bed? No one can say.

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