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If you want to amuse people with your knitting and make clothes for a baby, pick up Wacky Baby Knits. With it you get instructions on how to knit a pirate suit and hat, a Little Red Riding Hood outfit, a pair of ballerina socks, a set of monster boots and mitts, and an Elvis hat. According to the introduction, all twenty outfits in this book are inexpensive to knit, and not difficult to make. The author writes, “None is beyond the reach and skills of a beginner.”
Divided into the four chapters - Hats, Footwear and Mitts, Jackets, Sweaters and Tops, and Outfits – all of the designs come with checklists of equipment you will need, a stitch gauge, and all required patterns and templates. The outfits, which are designed to fit babies zero to twelve months, are modeled by babies who obviously delight in their new looks.
Although Wacky Baby Knits contains quite a few outfits that would be fun to wear during Halloween or outside on a cold day, it also features some outfits like winged booties and a ballet top with tulle tutu that can be worn at any time.
For those who don’t know how to knit, there are fourteen pages of beginner knitting information. Hand illustrations demonstrate how to knit, needle illustrations show how to increase and decrease, how to create effects such as the Fair Isle Method and the Decorative Bobble Technique, and how to bind off and finish your knitting. The author also provides a glossary of twenty-three defined words in the back of the book, and an explanation of thirty-three abbreviations in the front of the book.
Alison Jenkins is the author of several books, including The Knitting Directory and The Lost Art of Towel Origami. She lives in the United Kingdom.
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Wacky Baby Knits: 20 Knitted Designs for the Fashion-conscious Toddler