{"id":112,"date":"2011-10-07T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:46:05","slug":"babies-babies-and-more-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/babies-babies-and-more-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies Babies and More Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since my last update, but I am still knitting! I have done lots and lots of doll dresses (which I still love doing, even after 20+ of them), and lately I&#8217;ve been making baby sweaters. A few months ago, I found out that three of my friends at work are expecting! So of course I had to take the opportunity to take on some knitting projects.<\/p>\n<p>The first cardi is the popular February Baby Sweater for M. She loved it and got a little verklempt at her baby shower. \ud83d\ude42 I used Gedifra Extra Soft Merino in a pale pink. It really is so very soft and perfect for a baby! The shank buttons are vintage. M&#8217;s colors are pink and brown. She had her baby girl on 9\/10\/11!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi4.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2nd cardi is also a February Baby Sweater. I think this brings the total to 8 of all the Feb Baby Sweaters I&#8217;ve made. I swear everyone loves them, and thankfully I&#8217;m not sick of them yet! It&#8217;s for my friend Y who is having a baby boy. Y loves white and so I kept everything classy white, from the yarn (Gedifra Extra Soft Merino again, I love it) to the shank buttons. I decided to play with the pattern a bit to make a little collar. I think it turned out nice.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi6.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And last but not least, I made a fun cardigan for my friend J who is also expecting a baby boy. J likes stripes so I took the opportunity to practice knitting with two colors. I had forgotten how fun it was!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi2.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>The yarn I used are Classic Elite Yarns Classic One Fifty in Blue Sky, with Gedifra Extra Soft Merino in White. The pattern is &#8220;<a _blank\"\"=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/little-coffee-bean-cardigan\" http:=\"\" library=\"\" little-coffee-bean-cardigan\"\"=\"\" patterns=\"\" target=\"_blank\" www.ravelry.com=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Coffee Bean<\/a>&#8221; which is available for free on Ravelry. It&#8217;s a seamless sweater knitted from the top down, and the button band is picked up along the front and knitted on after. I used plain white 5\/8&#8243;&#8221; buttons but added a little splash of color with bright orange thread!<\/p>\n<p>I knitted the last two sweaters in 2 weeks, which is a record time for me. I just wanted to see if I could do it! It felt like cramming for finals \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Phew. After these, I think I&#8217;m going to continue finishing some projects I&#8217;ve had laying around that are for myself. Then it&#8217;s time to start thinking about holiday knitting! This year has gone by so fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since my last update, but I am still knitting! I have done lots and lots of doll dresses (which I still love doing, even after 20+ of them), and lately I&#8217;ve been making baby sweaters. A few months ago, I found out that three of my friends at work are expecting!&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/babies-babies-and-more-babies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babies Babies and More Babies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23,21,24,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby","category-february-baby-sweater","category-gifts","category-little-coffee-bean","category-projects","category-sweater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111006cardi4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}