My daughter is grown-up by now, but I remember the feeling I had after every summer during her childhood that she had grown SO much during the past months and that her clothes hardly fit any longer..
At the end of summer I always had to knit or buy her new clothes so she would be prepared for school and play in the autumn.
During those days I would absolutely look for classic wear that could be worn all day and be great for layering as well as easy to put on and off.
The Casper Sweater would easily have fit into her wardrobe.

Construction
The sweater is completely seamless.
The lower body and sleeves are worked bottom-up and in the round to underarms, where the separate pieces are joined.
The upper body is shaped by raglan-decreases.
The neckline is worked from picked-up sts and features a small one-button closure for easy fitting.

Design
The front of the sweater is worked in garter and cables.
I worked the cables as easy-going as possible, meaning that every 2nd round is a knit round and all the cable-turns are worked on the same rounds.
The back and sleeves are worked in a textured knit-and-purl stitch-pattern.
The neckline has a one-button closure.

Sizes
Finished chest measurements, after washing/blocking and worked at gauge: Size 1: 0 – 3 months: 41 cm/16” /
Size 2: 6 months: 46 cm/18” /
Size 3: 1 year – 18 months: 52 cm/20.5”
Size 4: 2 – 3 years: 58 cm/23” /
Size 5: 4 – 6 years /
Size 6: 8 – 10 years 71 cm/28”
The sample is worked in size 6 months. Sizes 3/4/5 and 6 have extended cables on the front.

Materials
Yarn: I recommend a DK weight yarn with great stitch-definition that knits up to gauge. I used “Pernilla” from Filcolana, in the colourway “812- Granite Melange”, to work the pullover. This DK weight yarn comes in skeins of 50 gr/1.76 oz, and 175 m/191 yards.
Of this specific yarn you will need approximately 300/350/450/550/650/800 m = 330/385/490/600/710/875 yards. Needles: size 3 mm/US2.5 for the ribbed hem and cuffs,
size 3.5 mm/US4 for the main body and sleeves.
Notions: 6 removable stitch-markers. Waste-yarn (for the underarm sts). A cable-needle (cn). Tapestry needle. Blocking tools. A row-counter is useful. One button – 12 – 15 mm/0.5 – 0.6” across.

Gauge

26 sts and 36 rounds in garter/stitch-patterns

The pattern
-The cable/garter section of the front is explained round-by-round.
-The cables are charted.
-There is a schematic of the set-up of the garter/cable pattern of the fronts.
-Measurements are given in cm’s as well as in inches.
-There is a schematic.

Knitting skills
Intermediate.

Tecniques involved
Cast-on. Bind off. Working in the round. Grafting the underarm sts. Simple cables, following a chart and/or written instructions.