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An adorable baby cardigan worked mostly in stockinette stitch, but the stripes and intarsia heart motif make it fun. The body is worked flat from the bottom up, starting with corrugated ribbing, and separating the back and two fronts at the underarms. The sleeves are worked in the round, by picking up stitches at the shoulder and working downward. Stitches are picked up for the neck edge, button and buttonhole bands, also worked in corrugated ribbing. The optional pocket is knit as a separate piece and grafted and seamed on.

Suggested yarn: Freia Fine Handpaints Ombre Superwash Sport Minikins, 100% wool, 76 yds (70 m) / 25 g. This yarn is supersoft with saturated colors, even and round. Each colorway is a continuous gradient. See photo of yarn requirements table.

Solids or contrasting variegated yarns can work well, too, but gradients are fun to work with and the pattern includes tips on color layout.

For stripes, choose colorways that contrast well - in shade or color.

Alternatives:

• Noro Silk Garden Sock - 328 yds (300 m) / 100 g, 40% wool, 25% silk, 25% polyamide, 10% kid mohair, 2 skeins for up to 12 mos., 3 skeins for 18 mos.
• Schoppel Zauberball Stärke 6 - 437 yds (400 m) / 150 g, 75% wool, 25% nylon, superwash. Two balls are enough for any size.
• Schoppel Zauberball Edition 3 - 164 yds (150 m) / 50 g, 100% merino, superwash. 1 ball of each of 2 MCs, 1 trim color + 1 motif color enough for 3 & 6 mos. sizes.
• Spincycle Dyed in the Wool: 200 yds (183 m) / skein, 100% wool, superwash. Two skeins are enough for the 3 mos. size, but will require color curation for the motif and trim (also enough for the 6 mos size except for the trim).
• Play at Life Jest Sport Sock Gradient - 325 yds (297 m) / 100 g, 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon. Two 2-ball sets (325 yds (297 m) each) are enough for up to 12 mos. size.

Needles

• Larger needle: US 4 / 3.5 mm circular needle, 32 inches / 80 cm or comfortably long for magic loop on sleeves (used for knitting full width of body, as well– approximately 24 inches / 60 cm flat), or needle to obtain gauge
• Smaller needle: US 2.5 / 3 mm circular needle, 32 inches / 80 cm or comfortably long for magic loop on sleeves (used for knitting full width ribbing on body, as well).
• Small crochet hook for picking up stitches, approximately US 12 / 2 mm
• Optional: You may want to use double pointed needles for the sleeves, or for the fronts, after separating from the back, or for the optional patch pocket: US 2.5 / 3 mm and US 4 / 3.5 mm, or size to obtain gauge

Notions

• 5 buttons for 3 mos size, 6 buttons for others, 11/16 inch (18 mm)
• Ribbon to back button band, if desired (½ inch (13 mm) wide, <50 cm long))
• Tapestry needle, waste yarn, locking stitch markers

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