It's a Baby! (jacket)

Yes! A little person is going to have a present when he/she makes it into the world! (I think you can click on the fotos for a bigger size)

Pattern: Drops Design b14-27 Jacket free free free free!
Yarn details:

• the label is a bit confusing (more eastern European stuff)
• it seems that the name of the yarn is 'Donna'
• 50% cotton/50% viscose
• 50gr = 125m
• colours 106 (green) and 105 (gold)
• about one and a half balls of yellow and a little more than two of green used

Neeldes: 2.5mm

The weight, sheen and texture of this yarn all combine to give a really nice drape and feeling to the garment, and I'm very happy with how the garter stitch on small needles looks. It's not going to be the world's warmest jacket, not with the fiber content. I just love how the colours turned out, after uming and ahing over them at the beginning; I think they're dramatic and bold and they're going to be great on a really cool-looking baby!

This drops pattern, for once, didn't give me any headaches (although I did find a small mistake in one of the stitch numbers and I emailed them about it and now it's fixed). This time it was my knitting that wasn't up to the task. The end of it is way looser than the beginning. This could mean many things: I was tense at the beginning; I was relaxed at the end; the boogey man secretly changed my needles up half a millimetre after the second sleeve, or the weight of the garment stretched it out.

Perhaps it's a combination of all of those, although if the boogey man really did visit me, I'd like to know how to exact revenge. :-)

Anywhoo, I blocked the beep out of it and now it's acceptable, but far from polished. I think I would have to rip it and reknit it if I wanted it to be perfect.

All in all, I'm happy with the way this turned out and would really recommend this pattern for knitters of all levels.