Cable & Seed Stitch Jacket

Pattern: Cable and Seed Stitch Jacket from The Baby Knits Book by Debbie Bliss
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran (how I love this yarn), 6 skeins for size 12-18 months
Gauge: 18 sts/10cm on US8

This jacket took a lot longer than I had anticipated, mostly due to finishing details like the collar, sewing in the pockets, finding the perfect buttons, sewing the buttons on. The end result though is a super adorable, super cozy, and super plush little jacket that I hope his mommy will like. Damnit, let me be frank here: I better see the kid wear this jacket every Thanksgiving and Christmas for the next 2 years.

I know pockets might go unappreciated by a toddler, but I think the jacket wouldn't be quite right without them. They are so cute. I'm hoping Baby will fill his little pockets with pebbles, or sticks, or whatever interesting knick-knacks he finds. Frogs included.

This was the first time I made pockets, and a collar, and the first time I knit sleeves from the top down. Since there's no armhole shaping nor sleeve cap shaping, I figured it would be easy to just pick up stitches for the sleeves at the arms, and work down. I just reversed the directions for the sleeves, and it saved me tons of time in the seaming that I didn't have to do.

Shut up.

Well isn't this sad. I couldn't resist trying it on myself. Imagine the delight/horror to find that this jacket for a 12 month-old kind of fits across the back and front of a scrawny 29 year-old (baby things are ROOMY, aight??), and doesn't look all that strange cropped. Hello bolero with uh...one-third sleeves! If Baby doesn't like this jacket, shit give it back to me and I'll wear it.

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