The construction of this knit follows a basic raglan construction that can be used for many different baby and child-sized cardigans, with opportunities for adjusting vertical sizing as well as for working in a dash of texture or colour. Call it a vanilla pattern for a bottom-up cardigan, with room for your choice of sprinkles or chocolate sauce. Once you have worked through it, you may also be able to see how to adjust the numbers used throughout the pattern in order to control width and proportion. Then you won’t ever need a pattern to knit a baby cardie that you like!

Update: the download now also offers an Italian pdf option! Translation and formatting courtesy of the enterprising ajroldi.