CHILD’S KNITTED SWEATER

(Courtesy of Columbia Yarns)

3 Year Size

7 Hanks of 4-Fold Columbia Saxony

2 Bone Knitting Needles No. 2

2 Steel Knitting Needles No. 14

With bone needles cast on 62 stitches. Knit plain for 13 inches, length of back. Leave 20 stitches each for shoulder. Bind off intervening stitches to shape the neck, increase 1 stitch every other row towards the front until 4 stitches are added, then cast on 20 stitches toward the front.

Right Front: Knit 6, rows begin the first buttonhole, knit 3 stitches, bind off 3. Next row cast on 3 stitches over the bound-off stitches and make the buttonholes every 30 rows. Knit 3½ inches, cast on 6 stitches for underarm. Knit 11 inches more; bind off. Left front like right front, omitting buttonholes. For the collar pick up 70 stitches with steel needles beginning one inch from each front, knit 4 inches, or as long as desired.

For the Sleeves—Cast on 35 stitches on bone needles and increase 1 stitch at beginning of every other row and only at the top of sleeve until you have increased 16 stitches. Then knit 35 rows without increasing and at same end where increasing was done, decreasing 1 stitch every other row until 16 stitches are decreased, leaving 35 stitches on needle; bind off.

With steel needles pick up the stitches at straight edge of sleeve for cuff and knit as long as desired. Bind off loosely, sew up sleeves, sew into sweater. Face the fronts with ribbon, work over buttonholes and sew buttons on opposite side to correspond.