How Big Is A Baby?
I’ve been knitting along happily for the past few days, making cables and diamonds and braids. I’m enjoying the yarn and loving the colour (a shade of dark heathery purpley blue that never seems to look as good on camera as it does in real life). As usual, I didn’t really make a swatch when I started. Preliminary research included looking at several baby sweater patterns and looking at how many stitches they started with, and then choosing something similar. (Note to self: Next time, pay attention to more than just number of stitches–needle size, yarn size, age of child are also valuable pieces of information)
Today, after two diamonds are almost completed, the sweater is getting long enough to stretch it out and see how big a child it will fit–and my worrying begins. Is this sweater gigantic? Is it going to fit a 2 year old? Will parents of a newborn be excited to get a 2 year old sweater? If the sweater is gigantic in circumference, how long do I need to make it? It’s all a question of proportion…How big is a baby anyway?!
pretty cables!
But…does it really matter? In the end there will be a lovely sweater that will fit someone at some point. Maybe I’ll just keep knitting, and let it sort itself out.
In the mean time, to calm my worrying, can you tell me how big around a one year old is?
