As I said earlier in the week, my small celebration of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s centenary was to re-read Knitting Around. In the book, her designs are interspersed with her “digressions” which in this case form her autobiography and it’s fascinating reading.
An evening of reading got to me the Bog Jacket, which reminded me that I had the Baby Bog queued last year but for some reason didn’t actually knit it. Perhaps because I’d already knitted a lot of garter stitch while making the Tomten, or I didn’t have the right yarn to hand. But it was deleted from my queue and I never made one.
So with some DK yarn to hand, I figured it was about time I made one, if only as a celebration of EZ’s centenary. The yarn is Jarol Heritage DK which is my favourite new discovery. It’s a wool/acrylic blend with 55% wool and is wondrously soft. Interestingly, Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK is also just 55% wool. And something like four times the price.
The baby bog pattern has a tension of 6 stitches per inch, which translates to a 16 inch chest. My tension is roughly 4½ to 5 spi, which should give a finished chest of 20 to 22 inches. And the beauty of the pattern is that the length will increase proportionately as it’s the number of ridges of garter stitch that matters, not how many inches you knit. Unfortunately, I have approximately another 60 rows of 160 stitches for the pouffy skirt to go before I can decrease down. But it’s wondrously mindless knitting and the construction is fascinating. More about that when I have progressed further. 
