Olive’s Wrap for Newborn Baby

A new baby was to be born this winter. I wanted to knit an item that was practical for this new little one and her mom. Read on if you’re interested seeing and learning about the process and finished knit.

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Yarn: Fingering weight

• Cloudborn Merino Superwash Sock Twist

Pattern: Olive’s Wrap by Knitting for Olive

Needles: US 1 (2.25 mm) fixed circular needle

What I Enjoyed:

• Adding picot edges to the cuffs, collar, and hem
• I-cord ties

What Bothered Me:

• Lots of purling as cardigan is worked flat

Have you ever dressed a baby and had a sweater to get over their head? In my experience, this can be one of the most difficult parts of dressing a little one.

For this reason and others, I’ve begun picking sweaters over cardigans for baby gift knitting.

Below is the experience and results of knitting a new-to-me cardigan pattern.

Materials

Years ago, I purchased Cloudborn Merino Superwash Sock Twist from Webs to knit an Anker Onesie by Petite Knit. I ended up knitting a cardigan using the Anker Onesie pattern as a guide but had plenty of yarn remaining. I pulled this yarn from my stash for the new baby’s cardigan.

Since this cardigan is a gift, I wanted to use superwash to make the washing of the finished cardigan easy for my friend. In my opinion, the forest green, superwash yarn was perfect.

Modifications

From my recollection, I didn’t make any modifications to this cardigan.

Other Notes

In this bottom up cardigan pattern, the sleeves and body are knit separately before joining together.

I’m not sure if it’s just the way I was knitting, but I found this literally painful to knit with my hands.

Since the body was knit flat while the sleeves were knit in the round, the circular sleeves had to be painfully and scarily stretched out for the first few rows of knitting the body and sleeves together flat for the yoke.

I may be missing a better way of joining the sleeves and the body in the yoke which I will be hunting for the next time I knit this cardigan.

No, I wasn’t discouraged to the point of never knitting the same pattern. Overall, I was very pleased with Olive’s Wrap!

Conclusion

The goals of finding a versatile baby cardigan pattern, using superwash yarn, and combining the 2 for a baby gift were accomplished.

Olive’s Wrap includes instructions for knitting stripes. I’m eager to knit the stripes into my next baby cardigan following this pattern.

I would enjoy hearing if you have a favorite baby cardigan pattern.

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Have a blessed day, friends! I will be back with more to share soon.

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