I designed a little cardigan with lots of lace for the special days in a baby/toddlers life. Maybe for a name-giving day, the first 3 months, mums, dads or grannys birthday….
The cardigan features a richly patterned lace-skirt and lace-cuffs. The lace-section of the lower body creates a scalloped cast-on edge as well as a scalloped edge towards the fronts. Above the lace-sections of the body and sleeves there are sections of the honey-comb pattern (which I adore! It looks a bit like a smocked tissue).
The upper body is worked in stockinette sts and shaped by raglan-decreases. The neck-edge and button-bands are worked in garter.

Construction:
The cardigan is worked bottom-up and seamlessly.

Sizes
Finished chest measurements are:
3 months: 41 cm/16” / 6 months: 47 cm/18.5” /
1 year: 52.5 cm/20.5” / 18 months – 2 years: 58 cm/23”. The sample is worked in size 6 months.

Materials
Yarn: I used the fingering weight yarn “High Twist BFL” from Qing Fibre to work the set.
This yarn comes in skeins of 100 gr/3.53 oz and 365 m/399 yards. I recommend that you use a fingering weight yarn with great stitch-definition that works up to gauge. Of this specific yarn you will need approximately 275/325/450/550 m = 300/355/490/600 yards. Needles: size 2.5 mm/US1.5. Notions: 4 removable stitch-markers (or several, if you want to place a marker between each pattern-repeat on the lace-sections), buttons 11 – 13 mm/0.4 – 0.5” across, blunt tapestry needle, blocking tools.

Gauge
28 sts and 38-40 rows/rounds in stockinette sts = 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4”

The pattern
The lace-pattern is charted (not written).
The honey-comb pattern is written out row-by-row.
There is a schematic.
All measurements are given in cm’s as well as in inches.

Skill level: average - experienced.