Kindertunika in Schachenmayr Catania - S7367B - Downloadable PDF

Kindertunika in Schachenmayr Catania – S7367B

What Is Being Made

The Kindertunika is a children's tunic dress designed in three size options: 116/122, 128/134, and 140/146. This garment features a seamless construction where the back and front pieces are knitted as one continuous piece in the round up to the armhole shaping, creating a comfortable, flowing silhouette suitable for young wearers.

Knitting Techniques Used

This pattern employs several intermediate knitting techniques to create its structured shape and decorative details:

• Seamless in-the-round construction: The tunic is worked circularly using circular needles, with the round change occurring at a side edge for minimal seaming and a professional finish.
• Decreasing for shaping: Strategic decreases create diagonal shaping lines that taper the garment. The pattern uses both right-leaning decreases (knit two together) and left-leaning decreases (slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over) positioned symmetrically around the piece.
• Marked stitch placement: Specific stitches are marked to serve as reference points for decrease placement, ensuring even shaping across multiple decrease rounds.
• Stockinette stitch base: The primary fabric is worked in garter-free stockinette (smooth knit stitch), creating a clean, classic appearance.

Stitches Used

• Knit stitch (rechts): The foundational stitch creating the smooth fabric surface
• Knit two together (2 M rechts zusammenstricken): A right-leaning decrease used at specific intervals for shaping
• Slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over (Überzug): A left-leaning decrease that creates a mirror-image decrease line opposite the knit-two-together decreases

Materials

This pattern is designed for Schachenmayr Catania yarn, a sport-weight yarn that provides excellent stitch definition and drape suitable for children's garments. The pattern requires circular needles of appropriate size for the sport-weight yarn and the desired gauge, along with stitch markers to track the decrease positions throughout the construction.

This is a free downloadable PDF pattern from Schachenmayr, protected under copyright by Coats PLC.