FO Friday - BSJ Gone Large

This is my 13th Baby Surprise Jacket. it's a pattern written for 5-ply (sport weight), but I have always knit it in 4-ply (sock weight) because that's what I have around, and I usually knit jumpers to welcome my friends newborn babies'.

I mentioned earlier that I was going to knit 10 hats for charity and KOGO put out a call for baby jumpers, and specified that they should not be premie sized. So I decided to hold two strands together and use 4mm needles.

It's certainly not small. In fact, weighing in at 270 grams, and being quite large, I would really describe it as a toddler jacket.

The buttons are left over from my 2012 trip to Liberty of London. All in all I love knitting this little jumper, and it never fails to look good, no matter what yarn I use for it.

This is my 4th of the promised 10 projects, so it's going to plan quite nicely.

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