{"id":9299,"date":"2015-04-17T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiinakasitoo.wordpress.com\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:44:57","slug":"lehemustriga-muts-ja-pitsiline-kampsun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogi.tiinabutiik.ee\/en\/lehemustriga-muts-ja-pitsiline-kampsun\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardigan and Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I started knitting the cardigan from the neckline. I cast on 56 stitches and knitted 6 rows in garter stitch. On row 7 I began the leaf pattern. The pattern repeat on the first row is 4 stitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leaf pattern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once the leaves were finished, I added the blue yarn. I knitted 3 stitches in pink and 3 in blue; on the return row I purled the pink stitches and knitted the blue ones. On the next row I knitted the pink stitches and purled the blue ones. I worked 7 rows altogether. Knitted this way, it looks as though a blue ribbon or strand of yarn has been threaded through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I continued in garter stitch until the raglan section measured 13 cm and started shaping the armholes. There were 168 stitches on the needle altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I allowed 54 stitches for the two fronts together, 54 for the back and 60 for the sleeves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As 30 stitches for each sleeve seemed a little narrow, I did it like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knitted 27 stitches, threaded waste yarn through the next 30 stitches (a holder needle only gets in the way), cast on 9 stitches, knitted 54 stitches for the back, slipped another 30 stitches onto waste yarn, cast on 9 stitches and knitted the other 27 front stitches. That left 126 stitches on the needles. I knitted two rows in garter stitch and then started the pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pattern repeat is 18 stitches and I had 126 stitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pattern for the lower part of the cardigan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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As I had very little pink yarn, I decided to make it two-coloured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knitted the first four rows in pink, then the next four rows, which appear as purl stitches on the right side, in blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continued like this for 15 cm, which with my yarn gave five pattern repeats. Then I worked garter stitch in pink and finished with blue garter stitch, making 17 cm in total. The back length was 30 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I picked up the sleeve stitches. I started at the centre underneath the sleeve, at the side seam. I picked up 40 stitches for one sleeve and knitted in the round on double-pointed needles. The first round was knit, the second purl, then 6 cm of pink stocking stitch. Next I knitted 2 stitches in pink, 2 in blue around the whole round. For the next two rounds I knitted the pink stitches and purled the blue ones. Then I knitted three rounds in pink and changed to blue. At first I wanted to use the same leaf pattern as on the raglan, but it seemed that increasing that way would make the sleeve too wide, so I made a pattern similar to the body but slightly different. The repeat is 17 stitches and I needed to increase 11 stitches. I increased 3 stitches on three needles and 2 on the fourth, all on the first blue round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Round 1 \u2013 knit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round 2 \u2013 3 times knit 2 together, yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit, yarn over, 3 times knit 2 together\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round 3 \u2013 3 purl, 11 knit, 6 purl, 11 knit; on the final needle there were 3 purl stitches left at the end and the pattern joined up neatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round 4 \u2013 knit all stitches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round 5 \u2013 I began a new pattern repeat. According to the chart I should have knitted one more plain knit round first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knitted 6 cm, then two purl rows and finished the sleeve by decreasing with knit slip-over decreases. The inside sleeve length is 15 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I crocheted the front edges of the cardigan in double crochet. Two rows of double crochet, then a buttonhole row and another two rows of double crochet. On the other side I made five rows of double crochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In keeping with my little obsession that anything made from yarn should have buttons made from yarn too, I made buttons from yarn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea and patterns for the cardigan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I had planned to knit the hat in the round as well, but I could not locate my small circular needles and knitting it on double-pointed needles seemed far too awkward. So I knitted it back and forth and grafted the seam together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To begin, I cast on 56 stitches in blue; the pattern repeat is 14 stitches. I knitted 10 rows in stocking stitch so the edge would roll. Then I worked 1\u00d71 rib: on right-side rows I slipped the knit stitches without knitting and knitted the purl stitches; on return rows I knitted ordinary 1 knit, 1 purl rib. I worked 3 cm like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a return row I changed to pink yarn and purled. The pattern comes from Leili Reimann\u2019s \u2018Pitsilised koekirjad\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After knitting 9 cm of the hat in pink, I brought in the blue yarn. I also decreased stitches on the first row. I made sure that the edges and tips of the leaves had knit stitches in blue. I knitted 2 pink purl stitches together in pink using a knit decrease. In my case that meant: knit, knit 2 together, knit, purl, knit, purl, knit, purl, knit, purl, knit, knit 2 together, knit, knit 2 together, knit, purl\u2026 to the end of the row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the return row I knitted all decreased stitches in pink and purled the blue stitches, like ordinary 1\u00d71 rib. On the next right-side row I worked the rib only with blue yarn, again slipping the knit stitches without knitting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 4 cm I started decreasing the hat: I knitted 3 stitches together all the way across the row, worked the return row, then on the next row knitted 2 stitches together and on the following return row knitted all remaining stitches together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to graft seams on knitted pieces. I grafted the blue sections with blue yarn and the pink sections with pink. Even I find it difficult to see where the grafted seam is. But here it is \u2013 let\u2019s do it together in three parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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