Saturday, July 5, 2008

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a...

...fuzzy manta ray?

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The knitting portion of the Baby Surprise Jacket for Trina's due-in-November baby has been finished. See the colored stitch markers in the jacket?

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Just match up the colored markers to get this:

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There are only two seams to sew: from green markers to pink ones, from blue markers to orange ones. After that, add a round of single crochet around the neck and a set of tiny buttons down the front. Then block it and ... VoilĂ ! The Baby Surprise Jacket, designed by knitting (or engineering?) genius Elizabeth Zimmermann.

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