ZACH & the CornCob Baby Bunthing

Yesterday, my posting  mentioned the impractical garment

made for our first grandchild, Zach, 4 years ago.

Lion Brand’s pattern for a Corn Cob Baby Bunting, really

spoke to me. 

It was a hopeful  environmental gesture toward Zach’s future.  Family and friends thought It was a sort-of fit after my knitting 150 red wiggler worms, teaching how to knit them in a junior high science class, so why not a Corn Cob bunting?  Looking back, I'm not sure.

Also appealing for first-time grandma knitter was 

this bottle-warmer--not for the breast-fed baby.

The bookmark was ahead of its time but Zach has heard the book,  “Boys Can Knit.”  He has seen both grandparents knitting, looks

forward to my promise: when

he’s five, I’ll teach him how

to knit. 

Here's Zach at two wearing a sweater,  maybe “vintage” now,

that I knit for his uncle Nick, when he was a boy in Baltimore.

Made another in this sturdy Candide yarn in the early 1970s for Zach’s mother in purple.  Have to send that along in a couple of years for Zoe.

What this grandmother learned:

practical is best. 

Blocks knit for him (Peace Fleece again)

have been "re-issued" for his baby sister.

[Block pattern from Melanie Falick's,

"Knitting for Baby."]