Baby sweater

Todd asked me to make a sweater for his high school friend's baby daughter.  In the past I've made lots of baby booties, but Todd wanted me to make something a little more than that.  After some research I settled on the autumn leaves cardigan by Nikki Van De Car using the DK swish yarn by KnitPicks.  The yarn was a lovely purple heather color felt very soft.

The little cardigan knit up pretty quickly so I made a hat to match and then I made booties too.

I had sort of a hard time getting the buttons right.  My mother-in-law kindly provided me with buttons, but in a moment of absent mindedness I miscounted the number of buttons I needed and ended up being one short.  I had to go back to the drawing board and ended up going to a button store where I found perfect little purple buttons.

Lacking an actual baby to model this on I tried it out on my bear.

When everything was folded up it made quite a cute little package.

I hope it didn't get abused by the USPS too much and that it made it in one piece.