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Knit Sweater Pattern

 

knit sweater pattern

knit sweater pattern

Sweater with Girdle

Knit sweater pattern: Very handsome worked in a tan brown yarn with silk collar, cuffs, and girdle of apple green and with alternate rows of blue and green in Popcorn stitch across lower edge of collar and upper edge of cuffs.

 

The collar is finished with a row of Brier stitch in blue. The front edges of the sweater and knit double and may be worn turned back, as in illustration.

The long silk girdle is crossed at the back and tied low at one side of the front and the ends are finished with long silk tassels of blue. This sweater can be made entirely of yarn with collar and cuffs worked in a harmonizing color or in white.

 

Materials: Corticelli Shetland Flosola, 14 balls Tan Brown no. 52; Corticelli Sweater Silk, 2 balls Apple Green no. 1000.5; 1 ball Blue No. 34. One pair no.5 Knitting Needles.

Knit sweater pattern Instructions:

Cast on 110 sts. And with two threads k.9 ridges, break one thread and k. until work measures 5 in., then decrease 1 st. every 5th ridge on each side until there are 86 sts. On needle, then k. unil work measures 22 in. from bottom. Begin sleeves by casting on 4 sts. At ending of needle every time for 17 times, making 68 sts. Altogether on each side. K.20 ridges even, then k. up 103 sts., bind off 16 sts. In exact middle of work for neck.

Take off on a safety pin the 103 sts. Already k. and on the other 103 sts. K.3 ridges, then increase 1 st. on neck side every ridge for 10 ridges.

Cast on 10 sts. At neck and with two threads k. 8 sts. Each row for border. K.7 ridges, then begin binding off sleeves by binding off 4 sts. At beginning of row on each side every time for 17 times.

This completes sleeves. K. even for 14 ridges, then increase 1 st. on under-arm side every 5th ridge until within 5 inches of bottom, k. even until within 9 ridges, join 2d thread and k. 9 ridges, bind off sts. Take sts. From safety pin and k. 2d front to correspond.

Knit sweater pattern Collar and Cuffs: Work collar 15 inches wide and 11 inches deep. Commence with 1 row of Popcorn stitch in Green, 1 row in Blue and another row in Green, the remainder of collar k. in plain Garter stitch in green.

Cuffs are commenced with three rows of Popcorn stitch the same as colalr and finished with the Green, in plain Garter stitch. Set up cuff just to fit niceluy over end of sleeve about 1 inch from bottom (which would be about 12 inches) an dnarrow every 4th ridge 1 st. on each end of needle 5 times, working until cuff is 6 inches deep.

Sew sleeve down into cuff about 1 inch from top. Sew up coat, under-arms and sleeves. With the Blue crochet in Brier stitch all around collar.

Knit sweater pattern Belt: With Green k. belt 2 inches wide by 2 yards long in Garter stitch. Make two Blue tassels of the silk and fasten to ends.

 


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