I’ve only just started baby knitting, but I do want to progress beyond hats and footwear (more about those soon!) and knit sweaters and cardigans. The trouble is that I won’t know the sex of the baby for another month (and that’s assuming he/she plays along and poses legs akimbo for the scan!) and I don’t want to knit anything that’s definitely girly or boyish.
Then this cardigan popped up as a free pattern on Knitting Daily:
The Cabled Raglan Baby Sweater is knitted with alpaca (swoons!) and is so cute that I really want to knit one for The Bump. But is it too girly? Even if I knitted it in a fairly neutral colour? The photo has it knitted in cream and even that looks a bit feminine to me.
I wonder if I’m just bigoted when it comes to knitting baby clothes and should just knit what I like and not care if it looks like it should be on a baby of the opposite sex. People are unobservant anyway. DS2 was often mistaken for a girl when he was little because he had curly hair and long eyelashes, despite him being dressed top to toe in blue and green clothes with pictures of cars and tractors and other manly vehicles on them. If he was a curly haired girl, why would I not have dressed him her in something pink and frilly? Gah.
Anyway, all opinions welcomed. Even “you’re just being sexist”. 
