Girl's Knitted Cardigan Sweater with Ties

Dotted details stand out brilliantly on this cream stockinette-stitch cardigan. A trio of ties finishes the dressy sweater jacket that is knit of acrylic and wool blend yarn.

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Young girl wearing white tied knit sweater

Getting Started

Skill Level: Easy

Sizes: 4 (SIX, 8, 10)
Note: Sizes for most Better Homes and Gardens knitting projects are noted in the instructions. When one size is written out in capitalized letters, it is to note the size of the modeled garment. The instructions are written for the smallest size with changes for larger sizes in parentheses. When only one number is given, it applies to all sizes. For ease in working, before you begin, circle the numbers pertaining to the size you are knitting or crocheting.

Finished Measurements:
Chest (tied): 29 1/4 (31, 33 3/4, 36 1/2) inches
Length: 14 (15 1/2, 17 1/2, 18 1/2) inches

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What You Need

Patons, Decor, 75% acrylic/25% wool, worsted-weight yarn (210 yards per ball): 3 (4, 4, 5) balls of Winter White (1614)
Size 7 (4.5 mm) knitting needles or size needed to obtain gauge
Sizes 6 (4 mm) knitting needles
Yarn needle

Gauge

In St st (knit RS rows, purl WS rows) with larger needles, 20 sts and 26 rows = 4 inches/10 cm. TAKE TIME TO CHECK YOUR GAUGE!

Special Abbreviations

Ssk: Slip next 2 sts knitwise, one at a time to right-hand needle, insert tip of left-hand needle into fronts of these 2 sts and k them tog.
P2tog-b: Turn work slightly, insert needle from left to right into back loops of 2nd and first sts, p these two sts tog.

Stitches Used

Seed St (worked over an odd number of sts)
Row 1 (RS): * K1, p1; rep from * to last st, k1. Row 1 forms Seed St Pat.

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nrshoen wrote:

I knitted a simple 'garter stitch squares' cardigan for my niece when she was born. For her 8th b-day I knit this cardigan. I did change the pattern so that it has a single tie at the top and knitted the fronts and back together as one piece on a circular needle (I hate seaming if I can avoid it) and made the pattern 'swing' (by adding stitches at the bottom and decreasing as I worked my way up.) It didn't use yarn like I anticipated - and I am a 'to the gauge knitter' - so I had enough yarn left for a cute skull cap (repeating the seed stitch at the bottom). It turned out fabulously and I was able to finish it in less than three weeks. Too much procastinating from a dyed-in-the wool mitten knitter.....

Thanks for the great idea.

4/14/2008 2:28 PM CDT

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zuzuspetals33 wrote:

Unable to open up the pattern on both pages for girls cardigan

9/10/2007 1:21 PM CDT

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suzilatoha wrote:

Easy pattern. Am a beginner. Only problem are to understand the collar part. Change the pattern by myself to tight seed pattern not a collar. But can any one teach me how to do precisely as in the pattern?

7/30/2007 7:23 AM CDT

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gms45107@yahoo.com wrote:

6/10/2007 3:07 PM CDT

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