I can wait a minute while you collect yourselves after reading that title. Better now?
I picked up a nifty little booklet called Knitting for Babies a few weeks ago at Amazing Threads. I’ll apologize in advance because my google-fu failed me and I can’t tell you where to get this $3.99 booklet other than where I found a copy. The cover says “Display until November 14” and apparently that’s November of 2006… If anyone has more information, let me know in the comments and I’ll update the post. Anyway Many thanks to Sarah, who knew that the booklet is available from Beth Walker-O’Brien (who designed the cute dress you’ll see momentarily). It has a slightly different cover on that site. That link is dead. You can find the lacy tank pattern at HowStuffWorks.
The booklet is filled with more than a dozen worthwhile patterns, such as this penguin hat…
…several cute sweaters…
…more bibs (bibs!)…
…and this adorable lace dress:
“…dum de dum de dum de dum… Oh, were you trying to take a picture, Mom?” -M
I’m knitting that dress for my friends’ toddler, out of SWTC A-MAIZing. Yup, yarn made entirely from corn and machine washable to boot. Who woulda thunk it?
“Corn? Really? Well, I do like popcorn, although this sure doesn’t look like popcorn…” -M
“Don’t get any ideas about snacking on that dress, May!” -me
Here’s the page with information on the designers from the booklet – maybe you can track down some of the patterns from them?? (Click to see the details.)
The penguin hat is super cute, I would wear an adult size one!
My goodness, I need to get myself or preferably one of my friends knocked up.
I’ve made three of those penguin hats and 3 of the inch-worm thingys. They are great patterns!
And I got mine at the grocery store. It’s good to keep your eyes out for those types of things.
Love the kitty pictures, as always.
I have the book, Knitting for Babies and I am trying to knit the lacy tank dress. When I come to row 4, it doesn’t seem to work out. I end up with 8 stitches left at the end and it should be 5 remaining for the last part. I’ve tried it by knitting and tried to figure it out mathematically. Nothing seem to work. I am a long time knitter so I am very confused. Usually patterns with parenthesis, you usually repeat what is in the parenthesis the number of times it says. So do I do the yarn over along with the purl 2 together 4 times. I usually just repeat the infomation in the brackets the number of time a pattern says…..has anyone had this problem. Please help because I really want to knit this dress…..
Thanks a bunch…..Colleen…
Wow – not sure if anyone is going to see this as these posts were from a couple of years ago, but the “Knitting for Babies” booklet was republished in hardcover.
I have copies for sale if anyone wants to purchase them. Just e-mail me at elizabethjwalker@gmail.com.
Thanks!
Beth Walker-O’Brien