Baby surplice sweater

This sweater is the last baby sweater I plan to knit for a while--but please don't hold me to that, I have a lot more yarn. Anyway, this is a very old pattern. I have a stack of baby knitting books that go back forty years--wait--even longer, my Aunt Sylvia once sent me some books that go back to the stone age. I used some really soft yarn it's Paton's Beehive Baby Sport.
I'm experimenting with a quilt pattern now, for another baby quilt--not that I need another one of those either, but I can make whatever quilt I want--from potholder to king size, right? I'm not very interested in making those little doll quilts that people do, as they may make a cute table mat, but I like something I can "sink my teeth into." However, I don't rule out potholders--they are on my list. Speaking of list--my family members are "standing on line" so to speak for various projects of mine. I love that. The other day, my daughter asked me if it's OK to throw out a pair of socks that I knitted in 2001, and have been worn to big holes. Don't worry, I have another pair of those on the needles. I like to have a sock in my handbag, to knit on it odd moments. But I do the heel turning at home, while watching one of those police shows that I like. By the way, I wonder if real women police detectives wear that suggestive clothing that they make the actors wear? The only few I noticed who don't do that much is the great actress Kathryn Morris on"Cold Case;" and Kyra Sedgewick on "The Closer," but being prissy is part of her character.

Baby surprise jacket

I have so many projects going right now, that I had to make a list for myself and post it on the fridge. At least I've finished this one. It's the Surprise baby sweater from the book "Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop." It's knitted in one piece, as the photo shows, and then you fold it up and it becomes a sweater. You still have to make a seam on top of the sleeves. The fun is that you can add in stripes and they made a design on the front and back.

E.Z.'s February sweater

Do you know what this is? It's the so-called February baby sweater. The pattern is from the book "Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac." It's an entertaining knitting book (there are such things) and it features a project or two for each month of the year. This sweater is knitted all in one piece and is fun to make. My only hint to knitters is to remind them to make the first buttonhole after the first 4 rows. I used Caron's Simply Soft yarn, and the sweater only requires 6 ounces.
Meanwhile, I'm making more of those house blocks that I mentioned previously.

Happy New Year. I'm in the middle of free-motion quilting the nine patch quilt now. I knitted this baby sweater lately. I always need to have a baby sweater on hand. For emergencies--I know that the mother was pregnant for nine months--but babies sneak up on me. Last time, someone in the family needed a baby gift. So off went the last green baby sweater I knitted. Luckily, I got the yarn for this sweater at a yard sale a year or two ago, so it's free, as it were. I'm also knitting socks for my son at the moment, and a vest for one of my daughters. (And I'm not even going into the crocheting and the other quilt I'm making.) And there's a waiting line for my knitting--another pair of socks and a vest and a baby sweater, and so on. My family went skiing lately, so those scarves that I made for them came in handy after all.
Baby sweater pattern from www.knittingpureandsimple.com