Stressed out over knitting! ( a wee rant)

Just enjoy browsing baby shops, perhaps your GD could go with you? Let her chose for her baby then find somewhere nice for lunch or coffee and cake. Hope she lives close enough for you to do this
Enjoy!

tanith

Honestly I really don’t think the effort it takes is appreciated nowadays. Do people even use mittens? They’d rather have shop bought than hand made. I’ve knitted for most of my GC but slowly realised they didn’t often use my painstakingly made hand knitted items so I stopped. It’s lovely to make them but certainly unappreciated.

You are so wrong. Shops are even selling machine made garments for babies designed to look handmade.

The trick is to pick lovely patterns and use lovely yarn in modern colours - not peach, turquoise, lemon etc.

I made my Avon lady a little blanket for her new baby and she was thrilled with it. It is small, but perfect for a car seat. Big blankets can be too much.

Blankets, bonnets, cardigans are all easy enough to knit or crochet.Bootees and mittens can be a fiddle.

Honestly I really don’t think the effort it takes is appreciated nowadays. Do people even use mittens? They’d rather have shop bought than hand made. I’ve knitted for most of my GC but slowly realised they didn’t often use my painstakingly made hand knitted items so I stopped. It’s lovely to make them but certainly unappreciated.

Persevere Lallykins. Blankets are easier ( no shaping) - small mittens and hats are a fiddle.
I'm slowly returning to knitting after years away and the baby blanket was a good starting point for me. Good luck!

I gave up even trying to knit earlier this year, we all have our strengths and weaknesses.
When my grandchildren were younger I asked their Mum what I could buy instead, so she got what was needed, but from us.

I can't express how super stressed I felt trying to knit a layette !
Knitting just isn't my forte .
My children are not impressed with my efforts .
I'd rather pay someone to knit for me .