Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Baby Steelers Letterman Jacket

Baby Steelers Letterman Jacket


Baby Steelers Jacket - front (1)

Baby Steelers Jacket - Back

This was made for Baby Kay+Rob. I work with Kay at Nickelodeon, and she said her husband is a HUGE Pittsburgh Steelers Fan. I've been on a roll making sports-themed baby gifts (Yankees Booties, Red Sox Socks) and I wanted to try something a little more challenging.


I have to give credit to "Lifesastitch" for help with the letterman jacket style and coloring. Also the idea for the buttons came from her.

I based the color scheme and logo off of the letterman jackets I found here.


I drafted the logo pattern in Photoshop. I LOVE doing this. While the ratio is not always perfect (knitted stitches are rectangular, not square), I find drawing on the computer a great way make intarsia and pictures patterns. I zoom in until I am at the pixel level and turn on the grid. Then I can use the pencil tool to fill in the pixels and draw my design. Then I take a screenshot of the pattern and paste it into a Publisher or Word document, and Print!

Steelers Letterman Jacket - pattern

Finally, the buttons came from MJ Trimming in New York. I was hoping for brown footballs, but this is all they had. Still so cute!!!

Baby Steelers Jacket - Buttons (1)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

GREAT JOB! BUT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN DESIGN PROPORTIONALLY CORRECT, YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN GRAPH PAPER WITH THE PROPER GAUGE FOR FREE. SEVERAL SITES INCLUDING http://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/matrix/e-index.html. HAVE FUN AND THANKS FOR THE INSPIRATION FOR MY SOON TO BE GRAND-NIECE OR NAPHEW!