Schaefer Yarn Company

c.2007

322 Welcome Home Baby Set

Like babies themselves, this is a collaborative offering, and an imaginative one. Carroll's hat and booties are gently embellished with successive rounds of increasing and decreasing, which gives a simply lacy effect. The hat's earflaps are worked first (up from a length of I-cord), and then the hat is worked in the round to the crown. The booties are worked in the round and then seamed along the sole. But it's the inclusion of Nelkin's bear contribution that we adore: this pattern is great for moms, of course, but how lovely to give a proper present to the baby, too!

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