Little Tove Rib Skirt by Lene Rix

Little Tove Rib Skirt

Knitting
September 2024
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
20 stitches and 22 rows = 4 inches
in knit 1, purl 3
US 7 - 4.5 mm
273 - 684 yards (250 - 625 m)
2 (3/4) 5/6 (7/8) 9/10 (11/12)years
Danish English
This pattern is available from oddrow.makerswork.dk for kr.50.00.

Little Tove Rib Skirt is a short skirt in rib knit with increases that gradually widens it. The design was created as part of the Little Isager Archives collection and is a reinterpretation of models from the 60s and 70s archives - from where the inspiration for the mosaic knitting also comes.

The skirt is worked top-down. First, a stockinette stitch edge is knitted. It is folded over and knitted together. A waist elastic is inserted into the casing.

Short rows are worked to add length at the back. After the short rows, turn one last time, to work the rest of the skirt from the wrong side. This is done to work fewer purl stitches.

After a piece in 1x1 rib, first increase with one stitch in the rib repeat and later with another stitch, so that the final rib repeat becomes * k, p3 , seen from the right side.

When the skirt has reached its final length, bind-off in purl.

You will find video tutorials for the pattern techniques on: youtube.com/odd-row

Sizes:
2 (3/4) 5/6 (7/8) 9/10 (11/12)years

Equivalent to body height: 92 (98/104) 110/116 (122/128) 134/140 (146/152)cm

Fits waist measurement:
49-51 (51-52) 52-53 (53-56) 56-58 (58-61)cm

Length:
20 (22) 25 (29) 32 (34)cm - measured center front without the waistband.

Gauge:
20 stitches, 22 rows at 10x10cm in the repeat * k, p3 , when washed or steamed.

Suggested needles:
Circular needle 4,5mm.
Circular needle 3,5mm.

Materials:
• 100 (150) 150 (200) 200 (250)g
Isager Soft, Isager (125m/50g) - One strand

• 100 (125) 125 (200) 200 (225)g Soft Fine, Isager (150m/25g) - Two strands.

• 50 (100) 100 (100) 100 (150)g Alpaca 2, Isager (250m/50g) and
50 (75) 75 (100) 100 (125)g Soft Fine, Isager (150m/25g) - One strand of each.

• 100 (150) 150 (200) 200 (250)g Highland, Isager (275m/50g) and
50 (50) 50 (75) 75 (75)g Silk Mohair, Isager (212m/25g) - Two strands Highland and one strand Silk Mohair.

The Silk Mohair strand can be replaced by Alpaca 1, Isager (400m/50g), calculate:
50 (50) 50 (100) 100 (100)g

Highland and Alpaca 2 can be interchanged with the same consumption.

Accessories:
Waist elastic: 2,5cm width.
Length corresponding to waist measurement plus approx. 3cm.