Verde Cardigan Kit

DESCRIPTION

A straight-forward top down raglan style cardigan for babies and young children.

 

Designed by Claudia Q for Eweknit

 

TECHNIQUE USED

Long-tail cast-on 

Working Garter stitch flat and in the round

Working Stockinette stitch flat and in the round

Increasing and decreasing

Backward Loop cast-on

Short rows (optional)

Working with DPNs (optional)

Working yarn overs

Binding off

 

MATERIALS

Yarn

Sweetgeorgia Superwash DK (DK weight; 100% merino; 256 yards / 234 metres per 115 g) 

1* (2, 2, 2, 2, 3) skeins in hemlock

 

* Size 0-3 mo uses almost exactly an entire skein of Sweetgeorgia Superwash DK. It is advisable to have a second skein on hand for swatching purposes, and just in case!

 

Needles

3.5mm (US 4) circular needle, 16” / 40 cm for baby sizes (24” / 60 cm for Child sizes)

 

A set of 3.5mm (US 4) Double Pointed Needles (DPNs) or needle in your preferred style for working small circumferences in the round

or needles required to obtain correct gauge

 

Notions

4 stitch markers, stitch holders or waste yarn, tapestry needle, eight 7/16” / 1 cm buttons

 

GAUGE

22 sts & 30 rows = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette stitch on 3.5mm (US 4) needles, blocked.

 

SIZES

0-3 mo (3-6 mo, 6-12 mo, 12-18 mo, Child 2, Child 4). To be worn with approx. 2” / 5 cm positive ease. 

See finished measurements below.

 

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

Finished Chest Circumference (buttoned): 18¼ (19¾, 21¼, 22½, 24¾, 26¼)” / 46.5 (50, 54, 57, 63, 67) cm

Yoke Depth: 3½ (3¾, 4, 4½, 4¾, 5)” / 9 (10, 10.5, 11, 12, 12.5) cm

Body Length to Underarm: 6½ (7, 7½, 8, 8½, 10)” / 16.5 (18, 19, 20.5, 21.5, 25.4) cm

Upper Arm: 7 (7¼, 7½, 8, 8¾, 9)” / 17.5 (18.5, 19, 20, 22, 23) cm

Sleeve Length to Underarm: 6 (6½, 7, 7½, 8, 9½)” / 15 (16.5, 18, 19, 20.5, 24} cm

 

PATTERN NOTES

This sweater is worked from the top down with raglan shaping. It is worked back and forth in rows to create a cardigan that opens at the front. The sleeves are knit in the round. Optional short rows can be worked at the back bottom hem to add some shaping. The pattern is written for double pointed needles, however an alternate method of working small circumferences can be used, such as Magic-Loop.