Garter Stitch Baby Jacket

Geez, back in October 2008 I started this baby jacket. Worked on it a bit, put it away, worked on it a bit more, let it gather some dust...six months down the line, I was fed up with looking for my 3mm bamboo circulars and finding them attached to a work in progress. I finally decided to bite the bullet and finish all of that garter stitch and reclaim my needles.



Pattern: Jacket in Alpaca
Source: Drops Design
Size: second (6-9 months)
Needles: 3mm bamboo circulars
Yarn details:

• Novita Nalle
• 75% wool, 25% polyamide
• 150 grams = 390 metres
• colours #43 (grey) and #574 (red)
• about 200 grams used

I've made this jacket before. Last time I suspected that the recipient wasn't too thrilled with it, probably because the colours were dark green and gold, and all of the other clothes she had bought for her little girl were pink and white. Woops.

This time around I mailed a picture of the finished product to a friend of mine whose wife just had a baby a few weeks ago, and asked him if he liked it and if he would like to have it. He knew the whole story of the previous incarnation and understood why I was asking him!

He was very happy to receive it, which makes me all the happier for having given it to him.


The buttons were a gift that came from Vienna and have been waiting for a good project to attach themselves to. I like how they're a bit radioactive-like in the way they 'glow'.