Starting with the oldest undocumented one; Sandnes Mandarin Baby hoodie
Pattern: 0805-7 E by Lene Holme Samsøe (Ravelry)
Source: Moda 6/2008
Materials: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino
Amount: 6 balls, only a wee little bit left over from the last skein.
Needles: 2.0 mm circulars
Finished Dimensions: Didn't measure, but made the size 18-24 months
Started: 05.11.2008
Finished: 24.12.2008
This was knit for my brother-in-law's baby girl as a christmas gift. I have a thing about not liking to reserve certain colours to certain sex, but I wasn't entirely sure whether or not the parents would've been all right with my gifting a pale blue sweater to their daughter (pale blue because for some reason striking blondness runs rampant in my hubby's family, and I thought it would look great on her), so I opted for brown instead. Thankfully her mother went wild because everyone had been gifting their daughter with all pinks and the mother was frankly getting sick of it. :D
This was very fun knit and despite the fine gauge went very fast. Because of the size it was very portable and therefore mostly knit on busses or waiting for something (most likely more busses). It has apparently seen quite a lot of wear since. I finished it on the way to my hubby's childhood home so just in time for gifting.
Unbelievably the yarn has stood the test of time. I've had pretty bad experiences with loads of pilling on other Debbie Bliss Cashmerino yarns, but a year later this one had virtually no pilling. Kudos for that.
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