This may be as good a reason as any to give it a go, and baby clothes are so much quicker to knit up (and less mortifying a scale if it has to be ripped back and started again, or to me they are at least).

And in this sentiment, you and Elizabeth Zimmerman the Knit-Dís would be in complete accord--she says as much in the original newsletter where she introduces the pattern for the BSJ.

I can wholly recommend, if you can get it and/or afford the shipping, The Opinionated Knitter--several of her first circulated newsletters interspersed with essays about her life.

-- Lorrie