Ballinakill Layette

While expecting my third child my mother came across a pattern for a baby cardigan in a notebook of hand written knitting patterns that belonged to her mother, my grandmother. So armed with the notebook, a needle size and yarn weight but no gauge and the skeleton of a pattern I set off to revive the pattern. To top off the ensemble I’ve added a matching hat to keep tiny heads warm.

The cardigan is knitted in pieces before being seamed together. The hat is knit in the round.