Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:59:21 -0800
From: "The Boudreau's" (patrick.boudreau@ns.sympatico.ca)
Subject: [BOND] Shawl-Collared Wool Cardigan Pattern
Size:- Finished Chest/Bust 46-48 inches - Meant to be a roomy fit.
Materials:-
Keyplate # 3 ISM - Bond Keyplate # 7 Elite
Knitting Needles 4.5mm cdn - # 7 american and British
8 - 100 gram or 3.75 ounce skeins of Briggs & Little Pure Wool /
Woolease may be used or any worsted weight that gives the proper guage.
Main Colour ( 8) - blue heather - Contrast Colours - (l) rust, beige
and green heather. Pattern for border of your choice. I chose tumbling
blocks. Colour does make a difference on this cardigan. It is also well
below the hip so could be considered jacket length.
Tension:- 16 stitches and 20 rows to 4 inches or 10 cms.
Ribbing:- Keyplate # 2 on Bond/ISM and Keyplate #5 on Elite.
Handknit ribbing - knitting needles
Ribbing I used - 20 rows of vertical stipes.
Back:-
Using Keyplate (3) (7) and waste yarn cast on 100 stitches.
KNit 6 rows
Change to main colour.
Knit to row counter 142.
Place centre 30 stitches on waste yarn for neck edge.
PLace on wste yarn 35 stitches each side for joining later.
Remove from machine.
Rib as desired.
Front:-
Cast on with waste yarn 30 stithces using Keypalte (3) (7)
Knit same as back to row counter 110.
Decrease one stitch at neck edge every alternate row to 35 stitches.
Row counter should now read 142 rows.
Scrap off on wast yarn.
Remove from machine.
Rib as desired.
Sleeves:-
Using keyplate (3) (7) and waste yarn cast on 64 stitches.
Knit 6 rows waste yarn, change to main colour.
Increase one stitch each side every 6th row to 80 stitches.
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Technique:- * Move the edge stich onto adjacent needle and pick up the bar
in between and rehang it, this way you do not have loops on the edges of
your knitting, repeat from * on opposite side.
Row counter ends at 90 or desired length.
Rehang stitches and rib as desired.
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Front Bands and Neckline.
Cast on 15 stitches using Keypalte (2) (5)
Rib until when work is gently stretched foes from the bottom to the neckline
and down the other side.
Before ribbing measure and decide where you want to place the buttons. On
mine, U used pwetwer look alikes, looks just as great with wooden buttons.
Hint:*** I go to the craft shops and pick up oodles of buttons that are
wooden and if I am knitting in a denim sweater for example, I sponge paint
and seal the buttons to match the garment, especially if the ribbing is solid.
If handribbing:- Which is what I chose, you have the option of changing
colours every two rows, the same as by machine. This is how I did my own
personal gift version. I knit a striped rib every two rows by starting
with main colour and working all of the colours in ending with maincolour,
so that the beginning of the ribbing and the end would match the main sweater.
Also, if you are working an all over design please work it out on graph
paper that is horizontal first and make sure your sleeves fit the design,
for example, rehang and knit from the top down on 80 stitchces it be be a
full glamourous slereve rather than the tapered one I have knit.
This can be knit very easily and adapted to a gentlemen's sweater by not
knitting the full sleeves and putting a geometric or fairisle border on the
bottom, or as in my case tumbling blocks pattern.
I quilt and like to incorporate my quilt designs into my sweaters. I have
also used the rail fece in an all over design and hope to knit it up soon.
Have fun, bonding on the net.
Linda B.
patrick.boudreau@ns.sympatico.ca-
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