Almost finished

I'm almost going to be sad to see this go, but the baby layette set is almost finished.
They were all patterns that I got  from the bond machine knitting patterns.
All except the mittens and the sweater.

Baby knits

I do like the baby items I have finally made.  It took a while for me to find a good pattern for the booties but I think I made a good choice.  My next step is to try and write a pattern for the layette set I have made. I am hoping I can sell it,  it is made on the lk150, one of the more popular knitting machines.

Back to the baby items

Since I finished my cable sweater it is now time for me to get back to the baby things I love to make.

A lady at work is going to have a baby boy- there must be something in the water this is the second baby boy this year in the office- good thing I only drink bottle water ;-)

I finished the baby sweater last night, well finished as far as the machine is concerned.  I will be hand ribbing the sleeve and sweater hems and then knit the collar in seed stitch.  I have fallen in love with double pointed needles, I can't believe I was so intimidated by them for so long. To me they are so much easier then circular needles.  Of course that could be because I have a cheap set and the needle kept coming off the nylon.

Plus, for me it is easier to keep track of rounds with double pointed needles.

Non knitting

It feels a little weird lately, I finished the sweater and haven't started anything new yet.  I have nothing to do with my hands at night.  I do have same baby items to make I'm just not sure what I will do.  I had planned to do a christening robe but after much thought decided against it.
So I probably will stick with the tried and true baby layette.
I have just bought some yarn that I hope will look nice.   I want to make this set with my bulky and ribber.  Using the Passap makes me want to get my ribber out to make my bulky a double bed. It just isn't the same anymore with just one bed, now that I understand that a ribber can do a lot more then just a rib stitch.

I have a baby sweater on my machine right now but this weekend I'm going to hook up the ribber and just practice playing with it.

I had previously made a racked baby blanket on my Passap, now I want to try the same pattern on my Singer 155.

I finally finished!

I have been working on this sweater for about a month now, and if you know anything about machine knitting you know that is a long time for a sweater.  Since I only get to work on it after work and on the weekends I think I did pretty good time wise.  I really like the way it came out.

What do you think???

The Front

The back

I know it would have been so much easier to not do cables on the back, but I have always thought that a nice cabled front deserves something on the back.

As you can see, I didn't do the cabling all the way down the sweater I flipped the material so I would have the texture of the purl side and then I did a simple little tuck before ending with a 2x1 ribbbing.

The collar and sleeve hems are knitted in seed stitch - another reason I didn't want to do that part on the machine.

Now that I have finished it up, I just have to find it a home.