So my colleague will be going on paternity leave, and of course I have questions: 1) How will the organization survive his absence?* and 2) How big is a baby?
The Internet provides answers for #2 at least (18 inches around, torso 11 inches long etc.) so that’s something to go on, but the motif that I chose for a decorative side-and-back panel turned out to pull in quite a bit more than I was expecting (pattern panel from the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible by Hitomi Shida).
“This sweater is going to fit for about twenty minutes after the baby is born,” I tell him, “so you must put it on immediately, take a picture, and then put it in a drawer where you will take it out occasionally and ask yourself, “Was the baby ever this small?””
No. The baby was never this small. But the sweater has an…
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