I decided it was time I made a start on the baby knits. As I had the yarn in my stash and getting the pattern was a matter of just printing it off, I started with the Cargo trousers.

It’s a long time since my two were this tiny, and I wasn’t sure which size to knit as they all seem so small! Just having a waist measurement doesn’t really help, so I had a hunt around for baby size charts that gave the average size for babies of a certain age, as I’d figured I wanted to knit them to fit a baby of around six months old. After all, you never know how big a baby will be and everyone always has too much small stuff anyway.

Anyway, I didn’t realise how difficult it would be to find a waist measurement for a small person. Eventually, I combined this chart for nappy wraps with this one which gives the weight per age for babies and plumped for a Medium.

The pattern is very simple, so will be a nice bit of mindless knitting for a few days, and definitely a lot less stressful than choosing what size to knit in the first place.