Finding clothing of whatever kind for a new born baby is not usually very difficult. There are after all many dedicated shops that stock their own established ranges of manufactured items. It's blue for boys, pink for girls, and in standard size because, as everybody knows, babies come in standard sizes.
Ordinarily they will have been made from standard synthetic material, and to fairly much a standard design. Naturally there will be a wide range of choices, but as of course there is also a very wide range of babies out there there will still be hundreds, indeed thousands of babies sporting the same "uniform" as your own very special and quite unique little one.
It is precisely because your child is unique that he or she deserves some special consideration when selecting baby clothes. There is still something about hand knitted apparel that stands it apart from all the production-line garments. Whether it be jumpers, hoodies, cardigans or bonnets the common determining factor is that the item was still lovingly knitted for your baby and for your baby only.
Knitting, of course, is a talent that has become more scarce as necessity has waned. Most of us of a particular age can remember our granny sitting in her armchair, clicking away and making strange movements which, as though by magic, resulted in a slowly but unrelentingly growing length of wool growing out of one of the needles. Somehow this ever lengthening piece of fabric transmogrified itself at some later stage, a stage we seldom witnessed, into a jumper, hat, scarf or some other such item.
This two needle method may have become a more specialised field of expertise as later generations instinctively rejected the hard work option in favour of mere synthetic convenience, but the upshot of it all is that a discipline that was once understood by many - if only sometimes in a crude, rather basic form - has now become a specialist skill possessed only by the truly expert.
In today's world the hand knitted garment is an indicator of discernment, as well as of originality and of appreciation of quality. Hand knitted baby clothes stand out against a backdrop of uniformity and lazy, ill-considered convenience. It is not just jumpers and cardies that can be made in this way, but also hooded jackets, blankets, bootees and indeed a whole range of essentials for your little person. Almost anything in fact that your baby wears can be produced from two needles lovingly committed to his or her own comfort wherever the option appeals more than the bland mechanical offerings of the conveyor belt.
Ordinarily they will have been made from standard synthetic material, and to fairly much a standard design. Naturally there will be a wide range of choices, but as of course there is also a very wide range of babies out there there will still be hundreds, indeed thousands of babies sporting the same "uniform" as your own very special and quite unique little one.
It is precisely because your child is unique that he or she deserves some special consideration when selecting baby clothes. There is still something about hand knitted apparel that stands it apart from all the production-line garments. Whether it be jumpers, hoodies, cardigans or bonnets the common determining factor is that the item was still lovingly knitted for your baby and for your baby only.
Knitting, of course, is a talent that has become more scarce as necessity has waned. Most of us of a particular age can remember our granny sitting in her armchair, clicking away and making strange movements which, as though by magic, resulted in a slowly but unrelentingly growing length of wool growing out of one of the needles. Somehow this ever lengthening piece of fabric transmogrified itself at some later stage, a stage we seldom witnessed, into a jumper, hat, scarf or some other such item.
This two needle method may have become a more specialised field of expertise as later generations instinctively rejected the hard work option in favour of mere synthetic convenience, but the upshot of it all is that a discipline that was once understood by many - if only sometimes in a crude, rather basic form - has now become a specialist skill possessed only by the truly expert.
In today's world the hand knitted garment is an indicator of discernment, as well as of originality and of appreciation of quality. Hand knitted baby clothes stand out against a backdrop of uniformity and lazy, ill-considered convenience. It is not just jumpers and cardies that can be made in this way, but also hooded jackets, blankets, bootees and indeed a whole range of essentials for your little person. Almost anything in fact that your baby wears can be produced from two needles lovingly committed to his or her own comfort wherever the option appeals more than the bland mechanical offerings of the conveyor belt.
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