Bradshaw is a seamless baby and children’s cardigan worked from the top down. The children’s sizes (2-10 years) feature pockets that are worked together with the body of the sweater while the baby sizes (0-6 and 6-12 months) are pockletless.

The cables in this classic children’s sweater pattern are both fully written and charted. Knitters may work from either set of directions as they prefer.

Finished Sizes:

0-6 months (6-12 months, 2 years, 4 years)(6, 8, 10) years

with finished chest circumferences of:

17 (20, 22.75, 25.5)(28.25, 28.25, 31)”
43 (51, 58, 65)(72, 72, 78.5) cm

The sample shown is shown in size 4 on a 4 year old in the 90th percentile for height and 80th for weight.

Yarn Requirements:

Approximately 400 (500, 750, 950)(1150, 1350, 1750) yards / 365 (457, 658, 869)(1052, 1235, 1650) meters fingering weight wool.

Sample shown in Brooklyn Tweed, Loft (100% Targhee Wool & 275 yards/251 meters per 50g) Colorway: Almanac; 4 hanks

Needles and Notions:

US size 5/3.75 mm and US 3/3.25 mm 24”/60 cm circular needles plus needles of each size as preferred for working small circumferences in the round.

2 (3, 4, 5)(5, 5, 6) buttons, 3 stitch markers, scrap yarn for provisional cast on, cable needle, tapestry needle, thread.

Techniques used:

Cabling, provisional cast on, decreasing, increasing, picking up stitches, knitting in the round.

Many thanks to Dana Gervais for tech editing this pattern.

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