Baby Kimono

Pattern: Clementine's Baby Kimono. If you go here, you'll find the downloadable pattern in pdf, and don't forget to say Hi.

Recipient: Baby C.

Yarn: Grignasco Bambi. Colour 184.
Can't rave enough about this yarn; soft, sproingy and spun not too tight, not too loose, it's juuuuust right to quote a certain yellow-haired porridge-stealer, and Easy Wash - surely necessary for baby garments.
Two 50g balls was more than enough for this cardigan as well as 2 matching pairs of booties. The first were ridiculously huge, I have a knack for ginormous footwear (maybe because I have big feet), with a walnut-sized ball left over.

Needles: Knitpicks 3.25MM circs. Gotta say, a marriage of needle + yarn. Smooth 'n' fast

Mods: Di helpfully provides guidance for most mods you might desire. In my case I went for a buttonhole / single button on the outside with an I-cord tie on the inside, which seemed more ... boy somehow.

Strange and subtley nuanced is this heteronormative gender fascism (thanks Ashley).

Just as an aside, I get tired of people referring to Scout as "He" sometimes to the point where I think of getting her a pink sequinned fluffy collar which screams "I'm a girl dog"! So I can truly empathise with parents wanting to slap a big pink bow or a big blue Tonka Truck on their babies to codify. Then again there are parents who seem genuinely deeply disturbed by anything vaguely gender bending.


More on the topic here.

Thanks everyone for your input on the button issue. Most of you plumped for the small tube, some for the ladybeetle. Some even raised salient issues of ladybeetles' flatness being more conducive to baby sleeping comfort., something I wouldn't have thought of. You can see cast on cast off's Kimono here.

Booties: Sole-up. 42 st, knit in the round, K2tog decreases for instep, stockinette topped of with a 'devil may care' roll down top. Easy peasy. I highly doubt there's anything more satisfying or entertaining than knitting booties.