a lilac smocked vintage baby cardigan…

A couple of months ago a friend emailed me and asked what I was currently knitting.  As I typed my reply I thought, “goodness, almost all my favorite things in that one little sentence!”.  At one time I said that if there was ever to be another baby in the house, this sweater would be the very first thing I knit.  It wasn’t, but it is certainly one of the ones that I love the most.  I modified the pattern fairly heavily to accommodate baby size, the weight of the yarn, the amount of yarn.

This project and these pictures are from a little while ago.  I can’t believe how much younger she looks!  And chubbier!  Sweet smooshy, milk-mouth, butterball.  She has stretched and thinned out quite a bit over the last month.

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4 thoughts on “a lilac smocked vintage baby cardigan…

  1. Melody Post author

    It’s called “A Smocking Story” from the Rock-a-Bye Baby Book by Columbia Minerva, Beehive, book number 738, circa 1971.

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