Baby Surprise Jacket: Adding Stripes

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I’m teaching a Zoom class on the Baby Surprise Jacket. This video covers how to change colors for stripes and how to work in the ends to avoid having to weave in at the end of the project.

Remember to add a new color when you’re working the front of the garment. And also remember to make each stripe a multiple of 2 rows. This will help you avoid having colored purl bumps show on the front of the work.


Baby Surprise Jacket: Increases

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I’m currently teaching a Zoom class on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise Jacket. The jacket requires increases, and this video shows, specifically, how to perform m1 increases.

Here are the written instructions followed by a video demonstration.

Increases

m1, k1, m1

  1. Work to 1 stitch before marker

  2. * Insert left needle from back to front under the strand running between the stitch on the right needle and the one on the left needle. Knit into the front of this loop to twist it. (This is an M1R – tilts right.)

  3. Knit 1

  4. * Insert left needle from front to back under the strand running between the stitch on the right needle and the one on the left needle. Knit into the back of this loop to twist it. (This is an M1L – tilts left.)

  5. Remove marker and replace it to the right of the first stitch on the right needle (to the left of the center increase stitch).

Next row will be all knits (no decreases)

To have a prominent knit stitch show on the right side, purl the center stitch between the increases when you work on the wrong side. The stitch to be purled on the wrong side is the one right after the marker.

* The angle of the M1 really doesn’t matter. Because the piece is done in garter stitch, the leaning of the stitch is hardly noticeable. If you want to just use one kind (I think step #4 is the easiest), just pick one and be consistent.


Baby Surprise Jacket: Decreases

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I’m currently teaching a Zoom class on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise Jacket. The jacket requires decreases, and this video shows, specifically, how to perform a sl2tog k1 psso decrease.

Here are the written instructions followed by a video demonstration.

Note: In the video I mistakenly referred to the marked stitch as 136 when it is in fact 36. Please disregard the blunder. Thanks!

Decreases

Slip 2 tog knitwise, k1, p2sso.

  1. Work to 2 stitches before marker

  2. Insert right needle into the two stitches on the left needle as if to knit and slip them to the right needle.

  3. Remove marker

  4. Knit 1

  5. On the right needle, lift the two slipped stitches over the knit stitch

  6. Replace marker

Next row will be all knits (no decreases).

To have a prominent knit stitch show on the right side, purl the decreased stitch on the wrong side. The stitch to be purled is the one right after the marker.