Baby Poonam for Baby Toby

Introducing baby Toby, my newest, most adorable, squishiest, cuddliest nephew.

Unfortunately I've yet to squeeze his chunky thighs and adorn his head with kisses as he currently resides in South Korea, along with his doting parents. He was born a few days before my birthday making him about two months old. We are counting down the days until they are back here (for good, hooray!) and we can finally meet the wee lad. So naturally, with the expectation of a new baby joining the troops my knitting needles called me up and I put them to good use.

There are not enough babyish boy knitting patterns on the web. Plenty of ones that will suit a toddler or fantastic vintage patterns but none that I wanted to make for Toby. Though, when I found Baby Poonam by Berroco my search was over. Boyish, a bit complicated and fun.

But boy, oh boy was it hard to knit.

I used some dk wool that I found in Taunton's amazing charity shops and still have loads and loads left over, enough for some little knitted trousers perhaps?!

The pattern was confusing and I believe that I ended up somehow knitting the button band on the wrong shoulder and knit a sleeve back-to-front. But, with perseverance and confidence I think I pulled it off in the end. I'm now on the lookout for another boy pattern to knit for Toby as he's probably going to have grown out of this by the time we meet him so any recommendations greatly appreciated.