It fits!

Eureka! Here is my great-nephew, Thomas, in the sweater I made from Knit Picks Simple Stripes yarn for his baby shower in February. The free pattern on their site was a bit whacked, but I improvised, and it seems to have turned out okay.

I must admit, he is looking cuter as he gets older -- there seems to be someone home, if you know what I mean. Very young babies either (a) look like Yoda, and/or (b) don't really have a lot of personality yet (though they do make cute sighing/baby sounds).

So okay, maybe this might -- just might -- motivate me to work on that Lion Cotton Denim Swirl cardigan. I am guesstimating the cardigan measurements based on the raglan baby cardigan pattern I found on knitty, with the addition on a collar, which the knitty pattern does not have.

I did finish one in peach cotton -- 3 skeins of Bernat Love Bug from my Smiley's Yarn Riot stash -- for a friend who is due next month. (Well... almost: I just have to [ugh] weave in the ends and oh yes, make the ties.) I used the knitty pattern as a basis for reverse engineering the pink Lion Cashmere baby cardigan (Pretty in Pink: pattern # 50678) from their new fall/winter 2006 catalog.

Hmmm...so I see that my laziness in using the camera in my cellphone yields a weird pinkish ring around the edges of all of my photos. Oops.