The baby kimono (IK, Summer 2005, or from Tess Yarns) has been hanging around the house for an embarrassingly long time. The knitting ended late last year. Sewing the cute ladybug button took a short amount of time. (The delay was finding small, clear, simple buttons to buttress from the wrong side.)
I tried Ysolda's sewn button loop. I used sturdy rug thread, also buttressed with a small wrong side button. The thread was far too slippery and slender to hold the looped yarn in place.
Finally, fully aware of the irony, I swapped out one technique that was completely out of my skillset for another technique that is completely out of my skillset. I chain crocheted a loop, secured it, and called it done. While not my finest detail work, I think that the soon-to-be-born child will grow faster than the loop can deteriorate.
Sometimes, expediency wins. I hope that the cuteness of the kimono trumps the good-enough fastening.
Pattern: as noted above
Yarn: Tess baby yarn, colorway unlabeled
Button: Windsor Button, 2007
Eight more days. I think I can do this.
That is a wicked cute baby knit.
And of course you can go another 8 days. I never had any doubt.
Posted by: Lynn | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 03:44 PM
VERY cute. Any baby would be proud to wear it.
Posted by: Ruth | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 03:46 PM
Yahoo! Tres cute! And in appropriately Etherknitter colors too!
Posted by: Manise | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 04:09 PM
I'm sure that you can carry on now that the end is in sight (although you may need a bit of work with the titles)
It is very cute, it is almost making me dig out the BSJ that just needs the seams sewing up. Almost but not quite.
Posted by: Caroline M | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 05:06 PM
That's an adorable little sweater.
Posted by: Carole | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 05:30 PM
That's what I WISH I had made for the new grandson, and not that hideous orange and green thing (which his mother loved, strangely). Good job.
Posted by: Marcia | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 06:19 PM
It's SO SO cute!! I love it! And, it's done.
Posted by: Kathy | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 08:20 PM
Very sweet! Do you know I've never knit a baby sweater? That one is darling.
Posted by: margene | Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Very sweet sweater!
And we're in the home stretch. With Thanksgiving and Black Friday (I work in retail) coming up, I just might be able to 'stretch' to the end of the month...
Posted by: gayle | Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 09:55 AM