Wool & Soy Sweater

My niece recently had a baby boy - here's Samuel. He's about three months old now but he'll be a year old at Christmas. The family is traveling to my area for the holidays so it's time to knit, knit, knit.

I'm making this sweater for him from the
Debbie Bliss book Family Knits.





Things are going well, I have the back done and most of the front which has a sailboat pattern on the chest. I chose to use the wool/soy yarn that I had used for my first pair of socks because it's so soft and feels like it will be very warm. Unfortunately I've just learned from Christine that this yarn has a problem with felting up - I'm going to go ahead and finish it. Hopefully it will work - otherwise I'll skip this yarn in the future.


Here's the sweater so far -