Bird Cherry Romper is a knitting pattern for intermediate knitting skills. The romper is worked from the top down, beginning with raglan shaping in back-and-forth rows with turning.

The pattern is written with standard English knitting terms and provides a detailed description to complete the romper in the photo, including charts for the stitch pattern, and diagrams for stitch distribution for the different sizes.

The stitch pattern itself is not written out - in order to make this garment as pictured, you need to be able to read charts!
If you prefer, you can skip the stitch pattern altogether and work the garment in plain stockinette - this option does not require chart-reading skills, and instructions for this modification are contained in the pattern.

This pattern can also be used to make a tunic or dress by lengthening the body of the garment.

Needed skills: Knit and purl stitches, increases and decreases, provisional crochet cast-on using a crochet hook and waste yarn, Kitchener grafting, working from charts, three-needle bind-off, basic sewing skills (reinforcing buttonholes, sewing on buttons).

This is NOT a recipe like my other patterns, you will have to obtain gauge and follow my instructions.

Gauge in a swatch of 10 x 10 cm [4 x 4 in], in stockinette stitch on 4 mm [US6] needles: 16 sts and 25 rows

Yarn: DROPS Brushed Alpaca Silk (140 m / 25 g [153 yds / 0.9 oz]) 3/3/4/5/5 skeins and DROPS Baby Merino (175 m / 50 g [191 yds / 1.75 oz]) 3/3/4/4/4 skeins* (yarns held together)

testers used the following yarns:
• 1 strand YarnArt Jeans 50 g / 159 m [1.75 oz / 174 yds] + 2 strands Alpina Alpaca Tweed 50 g / 300 m [1.75 oz / 328 yds] held together;
• Fibra Natura Sensational 50 g / 82 m [1.75 oz / 90 yds]; held single;
• Alize Lanagold fine 100 g / 392 m [3.5 oz / 429 yds];
• DROPS Air 50 g / 150 m [1.75 oz / 164 yds];
• Gazzal Rock ’N’ Roll 50 g / 115 m [1.75 oz / 126 yds];
• Knoll Yarns Merino Lambswool 50 g / 212 m [1.75 oz / 230 yds];
• Lanerossi Albany 100 g / 1,500 m [3.5 oz / 1,640 yds] held double;
• Nako Paris 100 g / 245 m [3.5 oz / 267 yds];
• Sandnes Garn Babyull Lanett 50 g / 175 m [1.75 oz / 191 yds];
• 1 strand Vita Candy 100 g / 178 m [3.5 oz / 194 yds] + 1 strand DROPS Kid-Silk 25 g / 210 m [0.9 oz / 230 yds] held together;

Translated from the Russian original by Katharina Sokiran