Our Painted Yoke Cardigan for babies and toddlers is a wearable watercolor, with joyful brushstrokes of our self-striping Novella yarn against a warm white canvas.
- The Painted Yoke Cardigan’s easy top-down construction and stockinette fabric makes the knitting a breeze. The fun and whimsy come courtesy of our Novella yarn. The Heirloom White is a solid color, but the rest of the collection is multi-colored “self-striping” yarn, repeating patterns of glorious color!
- Knitting two-row stripes with the self-striping color is a wonderfully simple way to bring playful colorwork to your Painted Yoke Cardigan. You’ll also use the self-striping color to work an I-cord around the whole edge of the cardigan and to add button loops with a crochet hook.
- Made in Italy, Novella is 92% extra fine merino, the softest grade of merino there is, plus 8% mulberry silk. The merino lends body and bounce to the yarn, while the silk adds luster to its surface and beauty to its drape.
Choose the color of Novella you want to dip into and pick up just one ball, plus 2 or 3 more in Heirloom White. We suggest looking at the swatches for each of the 9 self-striping colors on the product page for a clear look at how the colors will unfold in your Painted Yoke Cardigan.
Product Details
Materials
- Purl Soho’s Novella, 92% extra fine merino and 8% mulberry silk. Each ball of this sport-weight yarn is 142 yards/ 50 grams.
- Main Color (MC): 2 (3, 3, 3, 3) balls; approximately 240 (315, 340, 410, 515) total yards required. We used Heirloom White.
- Contrast Color (CC): 1 ball; approximately 55 (65, 75, 80, 95) total yards required. We used the color Flower Patch.
- US 3 (3.25 mm), 24-inch circular knitting needles
- A set of US 3 double pointed needles
- US 3, 32-inch circular knitting needles for I-cord edging
- Stitch markers
- Stitch holders or scrap yarn
- A size B (2.25 mm) crochet hook
- One to six ½-inch button(s). We used Purl Soho’s Medium Round Buttons in Orange.
NOTE: If you want to use Magic Loop for the Sleeves, you won’t need the 24-inch circular or double pointed needles listed above… Just stick with the 32-inch ones throughout!
GAUGE
25 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
SIZES
Newborn (6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years)
- Finished Chest Circumference: 18 (20¾, 21½, 22½, 24¼) inches
- Finished Body Length from Bottom Edge to Underarm: 5 (5¼, 5¼, 6, 7½) inches
- Finished Body Length from Bottom Edge to Top of Shoulder: 8¾ (9½, 10, 11¼, 13¼) inches
- Finished Sleeve Length: 5½ (7¼, 7½, 9½, 11) inches
Samples: The sweater shown here is the 2-year size.
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