Infant’s Band with Shoulder Straps

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT Saxony Wool—2 skeins

4 Steel Knitting Needles, No. 13

2 Small Pearl Buttons

INSTRUCTIONS

Cast on 132 stitches (on 3 needles). Join and work around.

Knit 2 and purl 2 for the length of 8 inches.

Bind off to within 52 stitches, then knit 10 stitches for the strap. Take another needle and knit the 10 stitches plain, forward and back, for the length of 4½ inches.

Make the buttonhole.

1st row: Knit 3 stitches, knit 2 together as 1, put yarn around needle twice, knit 2 together, knit 3.

Next row: Knit 1st thread on needle as 1 stitch, knit 2nd thread on needle from the back as 1 stitch. Make 4 more ribs and bind off.

Bind off the remaining stitches to within 10 and make the other strap.

Finish edge all around with 1 chain and 1 single crochet in every 3rd stitch and every 2nd rib.

For the pinning piece at lower edge of front pick up 16 stitches; knit forward and back to the length of 1 inch. Knit 2 more ribs, decreasing 2 stitches on each end; bind off.

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