Something to welcome a little pumpkin to the world!

This baby-sized, pumpkin adorned, v-neck, top-down raglan pullover is the knitting equivalent of a “oner”.

What is a oner?
In movie making, a oner is a continuous shot captured by a camera without any cuts or edits. Like in “The Fall Guy”, when the camera follows Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) as he rides an elevator to a death-defying height, straps into a harness, and is dropped, with no edits to sub in a stuntman. They actually dropped Ryan Gosling. A little less risky, this sweater is worked from the raglan yoke through the neck ribbing, sleeves, and body without cutting the yarn and comes off the needles completed, with just the yarn ends to weave in.

Why just the one size?
This is the size I typically knit for baby showers. Much smaller and it’s outgrown too quickly, much larger and it takes too long to grow into. This size also uses three 75 yard balls of worsted weight yarn with just 7.5 yards left over, and fits comfortably on 24” circular needles. It’s a great size for quickly trying out construction ideas for oners, which can then be applied to existing patterns in a variety of sizes.

Why knit a oner?
When I knit sweaters for myself, I tend to wear them a bunch at first, and then lose interest. That is, until I’m working on a new project and need some of that same yarn. Then I fish that old sweater out of the back of the drawer and start frogging. The worst part of frogging is teasing out those securely woven ends. The fewer cuts in the yarn, the fewer woven ends, and the longer the length of yarn available for my new project. So, when I want to do my future fickle frogging self a favor, I look for ways to convert a pattern to a oner. Plus it’s a fun puzzle to solve, trying to figure out how to get from A to Z without making a cut. There are so many paths to explore.

Happy Fall!
-K