A Baby Surprise Jacket

As per usual, along with my blogging, my knitting/crocheting came to a hold. I don’t know why, but it seems to be related. Now that I’ve started blogging again, I’m itching to pick up a project again too.

Luckily I did finish the Baby Surprise in time to take it with me to The Netherlands in May.

This is how it looks when the knitting is done:

And then you do a bit of folding (Elizabeth Zimmerman’s drawing is quite clear, I think) and suddenly it’s a sweater (after sewing two little seams, that is).

I read a lot of blogposts about it, but it was still – indeed – surprising. And fascinating. Most of the other patterns by Elizabeth Zimmerman I get. They are very straight forward. But to come up with something like this… well, I’ve said it before, she was a genius.

And then all I had to do was find the right buttons. Which proved to be a challenge. So weird, I have this whole tin of cute buttons, but I’d rather go out and buy some when I finish a project. Luckily I finished this when we were still home. We don’t have a big selection of those things available on the island.
Anyway, I settled for these simple pale blue ones.

I thought I was making it for fall, maybe even winter, but it already fits. Growing so fast! He wore it at his very first visit to the zoo, early this month.