Little Red Sweater

In a past post, I shared about a lovely little shrug that I designed. But you know what? Sometimes I knit lovely things and they just don't work with my lifestyle. Luckily, I'm a hand knitter with a passion for designing things that work for me (sorry if you aren't me and my designs don't work for you, I may be willing to dive into your life and design based on you, so email me and we could see if that could work out for both of us). So that's what happened with my Little Red Hooded Shrug, I changed it.

The Pros and Cons of Knitting with a Baby

Pros:

• Naptime = guilt free knitting time, because mom needs a rest too.
• Small sweaters take next to no time to knit
• Baby enjoys watching the repetitive motions (from a safe distance)
• Babies are constantly growing, therefore requiring new sizes of classics such as small sweaters, half-sized hats, and bitty booties.

Cons:

• Naptime = catching up on sleep missed last night
• Small sweaters magically has as much finishing required as the full sized versions
• Knitting needles have points...not so baby friendly
• Because baby is constantly growing and requiring new sizes, there never seems to be time to knit (let alone even sketch out) that new sweater(s) bouncing around in my head.