Babies vary so much in size, and grow so fast, that the jacket will be gratefully worn at some period during the first year.Ĭaps are quickly made, and invaluable for using up scraps of wool for color patterns and stripes. It is then only a matter of uniting the various tubes by knitting them together, or sometimes weaving them together, and we could, if he desired them, make long-johns for a octopus.įor a small baby, take 4 ounces of baby wool, work at any GAUGE you feel like, and see what happens. With the techniques of increasing and decreasing at our command, we can shape or even bend the tubes as we will, without seams, gussets, or darts.

But we, the humble knitters, can fabricate natural-born tubes by the very nature of our craft of circular knitting. Tailors and dressmakers succeed excellently and skillfully in making tubes out of flat woven material their achievements are nothing short of marvelous. The human being is so constructed that it can be completely covered by a series of shaped tubes. Now I realize that they probably knitted just as I do, rather erratically, and that it is Time, the Great Leveller, which has wrought the change - Time and many washings. I used to think that people in the Olden Days were marvelously even knitters, because all really ancient sweaters are so smooth and regular. Loose knitting tends to make your stitches look somewhat uneven, but what of it? Are you trying to reproduce a boughten machine-made sweater? Besides, it is surprising what blocking and a few washings will do to uneven knitting. If you are a habitually tight knitter, try to kick the habit.

Knitting without tears