What you'll need
| finished chest circ: | 3: 60.5cm/23 ¾ in | 4: 63.5cm/25in | 5:66cm/26in | 6:68.5cm/27in | 7: 70cm/27 ½ in | 8:72cm/ 28 ¼ in | 9: 74cm/29 ¼ | 10: 76cm/30 in |
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Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino - Red (34)
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4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
Bergere de France Ideal
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4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine 170
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4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
MillaMia Naturally Soft Merino
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4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
Lang Yarns Merino 150
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4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
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YKA011
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4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
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Rooster Baby Rooster -
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4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
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DMC Woolly -
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4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
Product Description
The brief for this cardigan was warmer, but not too visually dissimilar from a shop bought cardi. But as shop bought knits are mostly cut and seamed, which is not how I like to work, I used this as an exercise in simple techniques for clean edges in stockinette working only with live stitches, There is no sewing or picking up stitches. I also made sure to create edges to the knitting that are tough to resist fraying and wear.
Although created as a school uniform cardigan this can of course also be knitted as a plain cardigan for home use as the beautiful, vibrant, samples by my testers show.
Yarn choices I used Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino for my red sample. I also used a tiny bit of fingering weight to create a detail on the inside of the cuff. This is optional. The yellow sample is in the Bergere de France yarn.
Sizes & yardage
The sizes given are finished chest sizes. Sample shown modelled with approx 2 inches of positive ease.
Specifications
| Brand: | Independent Designer |
| Yarn Weight: | Fingering, DK | Light Worsted, Sport |
| Featured Products: | Bergere de France Ideal Lang Yarns Merino 150 MillaMia Naturally Soft Merino Schachenmayr Merino Extrafine 170 |
| Pages: | 0 |
| Designer: | Elizabeth Felgate |
| Craft: | Knitting |
| Format: | Downloadable PDF |
| Languages: | English |
| Notes: | Approx. 8 (9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 11) 10mm/ 4 tenths of an inch buttons |
| Number of Patterns: | 1 |
| Skill Level: | Beginner |