A week or ten days ago, maybe two weeks now that I think about it, I started a new knit project. It’s a baby sweater in a 12-month size and will go in my gift closet until the stork brings a new baby. Ideally, I like to have a girl and a boy sweater in there but seldom manage that. More often, I’m frantically knitting right up to the moment of the baby shower.
This sweater is the Patty Cakes pattern which was a free leaflet I picked up somewhere. It has a slip stitch pattern worked in two colors on the front. One color is a solid — in my case purple — and the second is a variegated.
I’m working from my stash and found that at some point I had purchased two balls of Paton’s Look At Me in purple and two balls in a coordinating variegated. Viola! Yarn for the new baby sweater.
I really like the way the slip stitch pattern is working up but I’m concerned about the variegated. In some spots it’s an almost exact match to the Dark Lilac main color. It also has a medium to dark blue in it, a darker reddish purple, and then a shot of lime green. This produces a sweater front that looks a little “dark” to me for a baby girl.
So, would you put a Dark Lilac sweater on a boy? The back, sleeves and bands are in this purple color. Not sure what I’ll do about buttons. I’m kind of thinking maybe I can find some in the lime green. What do you think?
I think purple is a fine boy color and the little sweater sounds very handsome indeed. Perhaps for buttons, you could get little trains or trucks? That would enhance the “boy” connection. Lime green sounds perfect for the yarns you’re using.
Oh, and I’m very glad you made it through your extremely hairy drive a few days ago. Up here, such drives usually involve snow and ice; it is terrifying to not be able to see when you’re driving!