Baby Surprise Sweater Results.......

I just could not help myself.... I had to stop my 'regular knitting' and try to knit my first Baby Surprise Sweater! Even with written instructions and the DVD, I had a few bumps in the road, but I did manage to get a decent finished sweater and I have to say, I WILL be knitting another one as soon as I get some purple yarn. Would you believe I don't have any in my Stash?? And after I said I wasn't going to buy any more acrylic yarn for a while?? But these little sweaters are sort of 'addictive.' The color combinations are just endless, and this pattern just fertilizes the imagination. It knits up fairly quickly too, which is exactly what I like!


Well, I promised some pictures, and here they are. I made buttons as well.


Here is the Sweater as it looks after you have finished the knitting instructions and now you have to figure out how to fold it to create sleeves, the front and the back. You're looking at the 'wrong side' facing you.



Here is what it looks like with the 'right side' facing you.


Here is what it looks like after you have 'solved the puzzle' of how to fold this 'baby' so that all you have to sew are the two shoulder seams on either side of the neckline.


Another 'step toward folding the sweater.


Neatly folded; ready for needle and yarn to stitch the shoulder seams.....


I decided to knit a collar on the sweater, and here is what it looked like afterwards...


Here is another view with the collar.


Here is what the sweater looks like from the back after the collar has been added.


Here is a'close-up' with buttons sewn on...

Here is a better look of the completed sweater.


I made a few 'mistakes' while knitting this: Beyond a certain point, I did not keep perfect track of my increases so that they form a precise line. It looks a bit messy, as you can see, but my next sweater will be an improvement. I just had to get this one out of my system to see how this pattern works. I already plan to knit plenty more of these!! The DVD was a great investment! I don't think; in fact I KNOW this sweater would not look as good as it does had I not had the DVD to help me over the perplexing points.