When I was first getting into knitting soakers, I found a pattern online for a soaker sack! It's just darling, and was fun and easy to knit-in-the-round. (I used Patons wool in the creamy natural you can see above!) It would be paired more appropriately with a side-snap shirt, I think, but I don't have any of those yet and I do have onesies, so I stuck one in for the photo.
John can probably testify to how many times I exclaimed that our little one would look like such a sweet glow-worm in her sheepy sleeper soaker sack. I was thinking of the toys that were popular when I was little. You squeeze their bellies and they glow. Anyone? (Picture on Wikipedia.) All she needed was a hat to match. Then I realized that I could probably make one of those, too. :-)
I found this pattern and got to learn how to make i-cord! I just used one i-cord strand, though the pattern gives you a few different options. That part was fun, although the initial increases after the i-cord were kind of hard for me . . . took me about three tries, in fact. But it was exactly what I had in mind, and came out just darling, I think! Better yet, I ran out of the Patons skein I'd used for the sack when I was about half-way through the hat, and my Mom-in-law just happened to have a matching end from one of her projects hanging around the house. :-)
Looks lovely! So many times I've been tempted to knit that pattern :) I think you'll find it quite useful.
ReplyDeleteI still have two Gloworms (and the batteries even still work!). Paul thinks they're weird :(