How to Knit an I Cord on Baby Surprise Jacket With Strings to Tie
The Babe Surprise Jacket was designed by Elizabeth Zimmermann in 1968 and remains a popular baby garment to this day. Information technology is an first-class design for making use of oddments of yarn or cocky striping yarns with long colour repeats, but looks equally prissy knit in a unmarried colour with a contrasting button ring.
The jacket is knit in a single piece with merely two seams that run beyond each of the shoulders and down the length of the sleeves. It includes extra ease across the back of the garment to fit well over a nappy (diaper).
Commonly referred to as the "BSJ", the baby surprise jacket is a very entertaining piece of knitted engineering.
A completed baby surprise jacket
When you first cast off your BSJ it volition look like something similar this. Do not fright! This is what information technology is supposed to look like!
When folded according to the pattern, it magically reshapes itself into a very normal looking baby jacket.
Notes on the Blueprint
Approximate and Size
16 stitches per iv"/10cm = 22 ½" chest circumference
20 stitches per 4"/10cm = xviii" chest circumference
22 stitches per 4"/10cm = sixteen ½" chest circumference
24 stitches per 4"/10cm = 15" chest circumference
28 stitches per four"/10cm = 13" chest circumference
Minor Pattern Changes
Avoiding picking upwards stitches on the wrong side of the row
I used the instructions from Knitting Workshop to knit my BSJ and there is a small change in the order of the knitting that I will make adjacent time. In the section where the design says to work 10 ridges on the centre 90 sts and and then pick upwards stitches and knit to the end, I work this as follows:
Having finished subsequently working a wrong side row, suspension the yarn. With right side facing rejoin the yarn at the first marked stitch and work 10 ridges on the centre 90 sts, catastrophe having simply worked a wrong side row. Intermission the yarn.
Rejoin the yarn to the very start of the row. Knit 34, pick upwardly 10 stitches forth the side of the centre panel that you have merely knit, knit across the centre ninety stitches, pick up 10 stitches downwards the other side of the centre panel and knit the last 34 stitches. Plough and knit dorsum across the entire row.
You now have 178 stitches and tin continue with the pattern where information technology says "(178sts)". Working the centre in this manner means you won't have to pick up any stitches on the wrong side of your knitting, the forepart edges volition lucifer exactly and you volition exist able to piece of work stripes wherever you lot wish.
Casting off
Continue working your increases on the cast off row to keep the bottom corner of the button bands from becoming rounded.
Placing Your Stripes
The following is a curt guide to where the stripes volition autumn as you lot knit.
This photo shows my BSJ at 22 ridges. Stripes worked in this department fall across the ends of the sleeves and across the total width of the back
This photograph shows my BSJ after working the neck shaping. Stripes worked here will fall downwards the forepart of the jacket and across the hips.
Lengthening the Sleeves
There are many ways to lengthen the sleeves on a baby surprise jacket. Blouson Sleeves
To knit a BSJ with longer sleeves you will need to bandage on using a long tail bandage on. This will make the ridge where you pick upwardly the stitches to lengthen your sleeves totally invisible on the right side of the knitting.
Bandage on an actress 9 stitches on each side (a total of 178sts) and place your kickoff marker on the 45th stitch. Identify your second marker on the 134th sew together.
Row one will begin and cease with k43
Row three volition brainstorm and finish with k42
Row five will brainstorm and end with k41 and then on.
When the pattern says to increase ix sts beyond the end sections just knit without increasing as you already have the extra 9 stitches in identify. Go along knitting the design equally written.
When you accept finished knitting the jacket equally written in the pattern (including casting off), pick upwards 44 stitches along the end of your sleeve and knit ten rows.
Adjacent row: K2, *K2tog, k1; echo from * to the finish of the row (30sts)
Alter to needles one size smaller than those you used to knit the rest of your babe surprise jacket and work 14 rows k1, p1, rib. Cast off and sew together up your jacket.
Collars
Fold-Over Collar
After sewing the shoulder seams, with the right side facing yous, pick up 18sts along the front edge of the neck, upwards to the shoulder seam, 17 stitches beyond the back and 18 stitches down the other side of the forepart.
Knit eight ridges (15 rows) and cast off. For a deeper neckband but knit more rows before casting off.
Shirt Neckband
You can find directions for adding a shirt collar to your BSJ on Panda Man's Knitting Corner blog.
Big Mitred Neckband
Afterward sewing the shoulder seams, with the right side facing you lot, pick up 17sts forth the front edge of the neck, up to the shoulder seam, 18 stitches across the back and 17 stitches down the other side of the front end. (52sts)
Knit i row.
Mark the 13th and 40th stitches.
1st row: Knit, working M1 at both sides of each marked sew together.
second row: Knit
Repeat the last 2 rows until you have worked 10 ridges (19 rows). Cast off, working the increases on the cast off row and so the points on the collar remain abrupt.
Calculation a Hood
Instructions for adding a hood to the BSJ tin exist found in the letters section in Knitters Magazine #57, Winter 1999
Sophia of the Yarn Over Manhattan blog has used the Tomten hood on a BSJ to very nice result.
Stella of knitknitfrog has also added a hood based on EZ's mitered infant bonnet pattern which is available in the Opinionated knitter. The mitered bonnet follows the mitering of the original BSJ, and the jacket was finished with an i-cord.The interesting dots where the stripes change colors was achieved quite simply past starting all stripes on the right side of the work, then knitting the first row a strip with alternate stitches in the old stripe colour and and so the new stripe colour. Following rows are knit to continue the garter stitch effect.
Different effects occur depending on how stripes are placed when working the back section of the hood.
This hood was mattress seamed to the cervix, merely perhaps could be reverse engineered so stitches were picked upwardly around the neck and the hood knit up.
Adding a Ruffled Border and Cuffs
Ravelry user loves2knit4six has added a ruffled edge and cuffs to her BSJ using an accommodation of the edging on Jillian Moreno's Boo glaze on knitty.com
Working the Jacket in Stockinette or Stocking Stitch
Y'all can detect a total list of changes to the pattern on the "Panda Man'southward Knitting Corner" web log. Please note that you will still need the original blueprint in club to employ these changes.
Where to Find the Pattern
Knitters Magazine Spring 1989 pp 26-27, 'The Original Baby Surprise Jacket'
Knitting Workshop by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Knitting the Infant Surprise Jacket DVD includes instructions for knitting a collar and matching bonnet
The Opinionated Knitter by Elizabeth Zimmermann. The Opinionated Knitter besides contains patterns for a matching bonnet, booties and a bunting pocketbook.
Spun Out 1B from Schoolhouse Press
Vogue Knitting International Bound/Summer 2007 pp 28, EZ'south Surplice Babe Jacket (a BSJ with surplice styling)
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