Raglan Baby Sweater

After the mess of a first sweater involving seaming I was determined to create one to be proud of but not take the risk of using masses of yarn for it to turn out poorly. After some time I found one worth trying and I love how it turned out.

Here is the front view of the sweater. The cut of the front is darling.

The bottom and sleeves are done in seed stitch to give it dimension and character.

The back of the sweater.

This sweater is size 12 months and seamless. I used Brava worsted yarn from Knit Picks. It's soft and more importantly, can be thrown in the washer and in the dryer without worry of the piece being ruined. Higher end yarns to work with are great but when it comes to baby and children clothing items I like to know that I can throw them in the wash with the rest of their things.

If you like this sweater and want to purchase it, it can be found at the KnitsNFrillyThings store. This is the only one in stock of its kind.

Diving In

I have always loved knitting and learning new techniques. It seems that I almost have something on the needles and another project waiting to be started for a friend or family member. Over the years I've sold pieces here and there but never really dove in to selling. As my knitting and creativity with it has gotten better and better I've dove in and opened an Etsy store. There isn't a whole lot of items posted as of yet but more are being added as they are made. I don't mind doing custom orders but in the mean time I'm knitting new projects all the time and can't wait to share them with everyone.

Recently I decided to try my hand at sweaters. The first one was knit in pieces and while the pattern was absolutely adorable, I HATE seaming. The sweater turned out very cute but because of my lack of seaming talent I'm not proud of how the top of the sweater looks. All the knitting looks perfect though.

As you can see it looks great. The collar of the sweater is what caught my attention in the pattern.

Once I added the sleeves by hand sewing them in it just looked too bunched up and bulky where it shouldn't.

 
I started looking through comments on this pattern and to my excitement I saw that there was a way to knit sweaters without ANY SEAM WORK. Raglan sweaters are now my go to. I'm almost finished with my third sweater this month. The more I dive in the more I'm seeing how many different possibilities there are and my daughter loves being the test fit for each idea.