This sweater is very special to me as it's a copy of the pattern I followed for a complete Lappish baby outfit for my younger daughter born in 1984. I knitted it, not knowing whether she was a girl or boy. Click here to see a photo of her in it. Do write and tell me if you knitted the same outfit for your own child. The pattern was in a woman's magazine around 1983/4.

Venne Colcoton 34/2, size 20 needles

The main pattern was from the book, Anatolian Knitting Designs by Betsy Harrell. The contrast colour is supposed to be pale pink, but even before photographing it, it appears white.

Venne Colcoton 34/2, size 20 needles

This sweater takes and expands a mitten pattern from Anna Zilboorg's book 'Magnificant Mittens' which use patterns with Scandinavian and Baltic origins. Like the sweater above, the sleeves take a small component of the pattern. This is easier to work on the thumb of a mitten, or in this case the sleeves.

Venne Colcoton 34/2, size 20 needles

This is a traditional Scandinavian pattern, so like our Fair Isle patterns, one of the most recognisable folk patterns, although perhaps never before seen as a tight fitting skirt. The pattern is way out of scale for miniature work, but there is a delicacy of most of the pattern, that it almost works. All over pattern from Sheila McGregor's book 'Traditional Scandinavian Knitting'.

Venne Colcoton 34/2, size 20 needles

A simple little summer dress with a pattern from one of Anna Zilboorg's 'Magnificent Mittens' (cuff pattern).

Venne Colcoton 34/2, size 20 needles