I made a BSJ for RJ & Melissa’s little boy, RJ, who’s not even a month old, as of today. It was only my second one ever, so I was a little nervous, especially because I hadn’t tried striping before, and my weaving-in is usually abysmal.

I think it came out really well, though! I did a rolled stockinette edge, that I did by picking up edge stitches and stitching down the cast-off edge back to where I picked up (if you follow me…). It’s like i-cord, in appearance, but it’s actually a rolled edge that can’t unroll.

I was sweating my yarn amounts, because I had hardly anything left over when I cut the final strand…I used 2 skeins of brown, 1 of light blue, and one of navy, and all from yarn.com’s Valley Yarn (Superwash DK) collection.

The placket for the button was another invention of mine. (My previous BSJ has hand-rolled buttons that work like duffel-coat toggles, which I made from crocheted discs of yarn & then rolled/stitched into toggles.) I was going to make it with two buttons, and have only one of them operational & the other as decoration, but eventually felt that the symmetry would be less pleasing than trying to figure out which was the “live” button, whenever the parents put the sweater on lil RJ.

And now…back to making paracord bracelets & waiting for the yarn for all of the other Christmas gifts I have yet to do (just little, quick ones this year). Woohoo!!

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