Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Project 7 - finished with instructions on how to make

Finished with project nr 7,  a sweater for my 20 month old.


Not my design, but really liking how it turned out.  I was obviously very influenced and I´m not claiming that I designed this.

If you would like to make your own Mushroom Raglan in 2 year old size the instructions are below:


 I was inspired by two free patterns,  the first one is here:
http://www.familiejournal.dk/Handarbejde/Strik%20til%20born/2009-41-Pigetroeje-med-polkapletter.aspx
The only thing I ended up using from this pattern was the yarn and colour combination

Then I saw this free pattern for a mushroom sweater and I knew I just had to knit something with these mushrooms.
http://www.hendesverden.dk/handarbejde/strik/barnetroje-med-paddehatte/

The only thing I used from this pattern was the chart for the mushrooms (toadstool?) which you can find on the following link
http://www.hendesverden.dk/UploadDK/hendes-verden/Uge_43_11/43_11_Barnetroeje.pdf









Not my design, but really liking how it turned out.

If you would like to make your own Mushroom Raglan in 2 year old size here are the instructions:


Yarn:  Smart (Sandnes yarn) , light purple 5226, dark purple 5229, yellow 2206

Gauge (after wash) (4.5mm//7US//7UK needles)  10x10 cm//3,9x3,9inches =   21 stitches x 20 rounds

Body:
Cast on 120 stitches in yellow (4mm //6US//8UK needles) ,  *k2,p2* until 2,5 cm//1 inch
Change to 4.5mm//7US//7UK needles and knit one round in lighter shade of purple while increasing until 128 stitches (*k15,m1*repeat).
Then follow the mushroom chart
http://www.hendesverden.dk/handarbejde/strik/barnetroje-med-paddehatte/

 Knit until 24 cm long

Sleeves:
Cast on 40 stitches in yellow  (4mm //6US//8UK needles)) , *k2,p2* until 2,5 cm//1 inch
Change to 4.5mm//7US//7UK needles and knit one round in lighter shade of purple while increasing until 48 stitches (*k5,m1*repeat).  
Knit until 24 cm long

Yoke:
add the sleeves to the body,  keep 8 stitches on middle of each sleeve, and each side of the body (56 stitches between the 8 stitches on the body)  (192 stitches in total to be knitted)
make a raglan decrease ,  mark where the sleeves attach to the body with two marks ( 8 markers in total) with 2 stitches inbetween that are alwasy knitted in light purple

Raglan decrease
- Knit until you have 2 stitches left to a marker , then SKP (slip 1, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch),
- knit the 2 stitches between the markes
- Knit 2 toghether

Repeat at all 8 marks so that you decrease in total 8 stitches in each round.  Total of 16 rounds.  You will have 64 stitches

Change to yellow (4mm //6US//8UK needles) and knit one round while decreasing until you have 60 stitches. 

*k2,p2* until  5 cm//2 inch    

Finishing:
Graft underarms
Fold the collar down and sew on the inside of the sweater.
Weave in ends

10 comments:

  1. Beautiful sweater! Thanks for sharing your idea :) Can I ask how much yarn you needed for this size?

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  2. 100g light purple
    100g dark purple
    ca 25g yellow

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  3. Mmmmmmmmmmm, þessi er æði! Gula stroffið gerir rosalega mikið fyrir hana :) BIG like!

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  4. How cute! Thank you for sharing your idea! :)

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  5. Wow! Really love it! Thanks for sharing.

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  6. thank you all for your comments :)

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  7. Nice! Love the sweater - so cool and different :)

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  8. Hey I just love this sweater! I bought the yarn to make it for my daughter and cannot understand the chart. I took it to our local yarn store to see if they could help me but they could not. I tried to translate the words but it makes no sense. Is there and English version of the chart? If not, is there anyway you could translate the phrases on the chart for me? I am sorry to bother you with this but I don't know anyone that speaks Danish. Much appreciation.

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    1. sorry didn´t see your question until now. I will try to explain, please feel free to ask again if you have further questions.

      It is 16 stitches that are repated 8 times (128 stitches). I started where the chart states: "begynd højre forstykke), and repeated the 16 stitches, 8 times (from this place in the chart and 15 next stitches).

      then I just repated these 14 rows in the chart until I had 24 cm.

      I didn't translate the other things below the chart as they refer to the other mushroom cardigan pattern in danish (just sizing and where to start for different sizes for sleeves/front/back etc).

      For the sleeves, I started at the same place in the chart, and repeated 3 times x 16 stitches (48 stitches).

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