The Elba Baby Sweater - Pattern

GENERAL / INTRODUCTION

This kid’s sweater is knit top-down seamlessly in the round in stockinette stitch, with the colourwork yoke knit in either two or three different colours.

SIZES & MEASUREMENTS

Table 1: Sizes & measurements

YARN

This pattern requires a fingering-weight yarn, preferably soft so it is suitable to be worn by a baby. Merino wool, silk, alpaca, acrylic yarns, or blends are recommended. Two or three different colours of yarn are needed, depending on the choice to add a third colour or not. Make sure to create a gauge swatch including the colourwork to check if your colours of choice work well together. Check Table 2 to see how much yarn is needed for each colour.

For the test knit sample, a merino/silk blend was used in fingering-weight yarn (Fingering 75% merino wool, 25% silk) from DyeForYarn in the colours ‘Rain in a Graveyard’ (colour 2, darker blue) and ‘Dissipating Icy Mist’ (colour 1, light blue). The contrasting variegated pink colour (colour 3) is a leftover yarn from an earlier project, 100% fingering-weight merino.

Table 2: Yardage estimates

NEEDLES & NOTIONS

* If necessary, switch to one needle size larger or smaller to get gauge. You may need to use a needle 1-2 sizes bigger or smaller for colorwork than you use for stockinette stitch. A lot of knitters work more tightly or looser in stranded colorwork than in stockinette. To find out the right needle size, always make a gauge swatch (in the round) first.

GAUGE

28 st x 36 r = 4x4” / 10x10 cm in stockinette stitch on US3 / 3.25mm needles.

SKILLS USED