If you have not heard of Elizabeth Zimmermann, you are missing a lot. A friend of mine recently said, “Sometimes you just have to realize you are in the presence of knitting greatness. Not only was she a great knitter, she was also an engineer.”
The following are a series of pictures of a completed Baby Surprise Jacket, using the written instructions from her book, The Opinionated Knitter. You start by casting on a lot of stitches and then decreasing within the row on each side to create a mitered corner.
You then knit even for a few rows.
You bind off a few stitches for the collar.
Now you start increasing for a bit to create the back of the sweater. No matter how it looks if you follow the instructions to the letter it will all work out, but just about now I had doubts.
Here is where the fun or magic is, folding the completed sweater like it is paper origami.
It is unbelievably cool to finish folding this sweater and realize you only have two seams to complete across the sleeve.
Because I could not leave a perfect item alone, I added an I-cord around the neckline, instead of the suggested buttons. And will finish the trim in a crochet crab stitch.
Too cute, isn’t it!
