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Liam
This cute garter stitch sweater is knit all in one piece, it has buttons at the shoulders, a stocking stitch yoke and darling wee intarsia sheep (which can be added using duplicate stitch later). Liam has been updated (2015) and now buttons at one shoulder only.
The sweater in the main photograph is size 2 years, with 3 large owls worked on the yoke.
More intarsia charts are available in the new pattern;
- original black sheep
- sheep with heart
- baby owls (or bats!)
- large owls
Information
Ages 0 (6, 12, 18, 24) months
Actual chest (child) 40 (45, 48, 50, 53) cm / 16 (18, 19, 20, 21)”
Yarn
4 ply (fingering) wool
50 g = 165 m / 180 yds
MC - main colour - 330 (495, 495, 660,660) m / 360 (541, 541, 721, 721) yds
CC1 - contrast colour one - small amount
CC2 - contrast colour two - small amount
CC3 - contrast colour three - small amount
(depends on chart being used)
Needles
3.25 mm (US 3)
Or size needed to achieve gauge
Notions
Darning needle
Crochet hook for buttonholes - size 3.25 mm or “D”
One stitch marker
3 (3, 3, 4, 5) buttons; 1 cm (1/2 “) in diameter
Gauge
Garter stitch 24 sts x 48 rows to 10cm / 4” after blocking but in a relaxed state (the swatch and the knitter!)
Notes
This garment is worked in one piece, commencing at the bottom front. You will cast on sts to increase for the sleeves, cast off for and back on again for the neck section, cast off to decrease for sleeves, then work straight to bottom back. The side and under sleeve seams complete the garment. The motifs can be worked using the intarsia method or embroidered on afterwards.
Omission (.pdf has been updated)
Right shoulder opening.
Cast off, break yarn. Rejoin yarn and cast on 12 (13,
14, 15, 19) sts, then working across sleeve sts as
well, work 4 (4, 6, 6, 8) rows stst place sts on a holder.
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- First published: February 2008
- Page created: February 11, 2008
- Last updated: November 9, 2018 …
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