This sweater if for my baby niece, Rosalie, up in the frozen tundra (not quite) of Minnesota. I was lax on making her a sweater by Christmas, so on Valentine’s Day I conjured up the idea for this one and set to work. I couldn’t find exactly the kind of baby sweater I wanted to make so I improvised a bit. I knew I wanted stripes of some kind, and I wanted to use fingering weight yarn since I have a metric ton of it in my stash. I perused the stash and settled on the speckled yarn first. I was meant to be used in the So Faded I made in the fall but it didn’t fit the other yarns as well as I liked when I started to fade it with another. The current sweater is a bottom up raglan that uses the numbers and gauge from Little Oak for the 12 month size, but when I finished the sleeves I did raglan decreases instead of those in the pattern. She just turned 7 months, so I sized up a bit as I usually do. The finished result reminds me a bit of one of my first sweaters, Treeline Cardigan.

The yarns are Manos del Uruguay Alegría in Magenta and The Yarns of Rhichard Devrieze Peppino in Rain Dancing. I originally thought about using the Rain Dancing (the speckled one) as contrast striping for a gradient with pink to greens as the alternating stripes, but the bright spring greens I picked out did not contrast enough with the Rain Dancing to look like I wanted.

I got to see a pic of her in the sweater and she’s darling, although she has plenty of sleeve and width to fill for next year. I wish I could teleport to Minnesota to give her a snuggle!