I have several baby knitting books, but now my “baby” is nearing 2 yrs old and most of the patterns don’t offer directions for sizes after 12 months. In particular, “Knitting for Two” by Erika Knight has a cute raglan sweater that I made for my son last winter and loved – I want to make it again but can’t manage to get the sizing right. Can anyone help guide me through that???
also I made a hat for my son from a baby pattern and now my husband wants the same hat – but again I don’t know how to make it big enough.
YOu can adjust your gauge… knit with a chunkier yarn on bigger needles.
You can also do some math to figure out how many extra stitches you should cast on. If the sizing is for, say newborn[3-6mos,6-12mos] just take the intervals between the patterns to make the next size… so if it says CO 30 (40, 50) sts, you’d CO 60 for the “next” size.
The trouble is that I want to use a particular yarn (Noro Kureyon) which I have already bought so don’t have the option of using chunkier yarn. anyway I think if I went any chunkier with this particular sweater it would be impossible to wear.
I tried just incrementally increasing the number of stitches and I ended up with a sweather that was WAAAAY too wide. I actually already made it and ripped the whole thing out because my baby will never be that shape! is there not a more scientific way to do things?