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Rowan 20, Fall/Winter 1996
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Milli
SUMMARY: Milli is a shawl collar, straight, car coat length cardigan with pockets and long, drop-shouldered sleeves, worked in a south west style of patterning, using fair isle, intarsia and colour bands. The bottom edge, button bands and cuffs are worked in pattern and self-faced. The shawl collar is worked separately in pattern and attached to the garment in the finishing stages.
There are 9 colours used in this pattern (A – J)
SIZES: Small (Medium, Large).
TO FIT BUST: 47 (50, 52)” / 121 (127, 132) cm.
YARN REQUIREMENTS: Medium weight, Aran or 10-ply yarn and sport weight, DK or 5-ply yarn.
Colour A: Aran, 306 (459, 459) yds, / 280 (420, 420) m, / 2 (3, 3) skeins, Colour B: Aran, 612 yds, / 560 m, / 4 skeins for all sizes, Colour C: DK, 125 yds, / 114 m, / 1 ball for all sizes, Colour D: DK, 250 yds, / 228 m, / 2 balls for all sizes, Colour E: Aran, 153 (153, 306) yds, / 140 (140, 280) m, / 1 (1, 2) skeins, Colour F: Aran, 153 yds, / 140 m, / 1 skein for all sizes, Colour G: Aran, 153 (153, 306) yds, / 140 (140, 280) m, / 1 (1, 2) skeins, Colour H: DK, 125 (125, 250) yds, / 114 (114, 228) m, / 1 (1, 2) balls, Colour J: DK, 375 yds, / 342 m, / 3 balls for all sizes.
SHOWN IN: Colour A: Rowan Magpie Porridge #771, Colour B: Rowan Magpie Charcoal #625, Colour C: Rowan D. D. K. Rust #663, Colour D: Rowan D. D. K. Blue #642, Colour E: Rowan Magpie Neptune #612, Colour F: Rowan Magpie Squirrel #772, Colour G: Rowan Magpie Cloud #507, Colour H: Rowan D. D. K. Lime #664 and Colour J: Rowan D. D. K. Rose #630.
NOTE: The D. D. K. yarns are used double throughout the work.
NOTIONS: 5 buttons.
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: increasing and decreasing in knitting, slip stitch and back stitch or mattress stitch seaming.
Neither the Pattern book nor yarns are available in the trade but can sometimes be located through online selling/trading sites.
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- First published: August 1996
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