Materials
Yarn: 4/4/5 skeins of Red Heart “Light & Lofty” 128 m/140 yds, 170 g/6 oz. 100% acrylic Color: #9334, Café Au Lait or a similar superbulky (size 6) yarn
Needles: US 10 straight
Notions: tapestry needle, split marker, buttons, straight pins (or split stitch markers or paperclips) for marking button locations
Sizing
Gauge: 10 sts and 12 rows = 4 inches, unstretched
Size: Small, Medium, Large (Small is pictured)
Skill Level
Advanced Beginner
Note to Beginners: If you want to simplify the pattern, here are some suggestions to consider:
1) Omit the buttonholes, still sew on decorative buttons.
2) Omit the collar tab.
3) If the set-in sleeve shaping is more than you want to try, omit the bind off for the armholes on the back and front panels. (Now you are basically knitting 3 rectangles - easy, right?) Stitch count will not change and you will have drop shoulder sleeves instead.
4) Omit sleeves for a vest look.
Stitch Glossary/Terms
BO – Bind Off
CO- Cast On
KIP – Since this is a K2, P2 ribbing, you would knit the knits and purl the purls on the following rows, as they appear on your needle.
K –Knit
Kf&b – Knit front and back of stitch.
KIP- Knit in pattern
K2tog – knit next 2 stitches together.
Knit Into Hole – This means that you want to lift a bar in the center of the gap produced by the BO and knit it. This produces a strong buttonhole.
P – Purl
psso- pass slipped stitch over
Rpt – Repeat
RS – Right Side
Slip 1 – slip one stitch to the right hand needle without knitting it.
St(s) – stitch(es)
WS – Wrong side
Pattern
Multiple of 4
Knit from waist to shoulder.
Back - Cast on 44 sts for Small, 52 for Medium or 64 for Large. (Pattern is a 2 x 2 ribbing: K2, P2 for entire row. You knit the knits and purl the purls on following rows.)
Row1: * K2, P2 *
Repeat Row 1 until 13” long.
Armhole Shaping - *Bind off 4 sts. (40/48/60 sts remain) (Hint: It’s a good idea to count the sts and make sure you’ve bound off the correct number.) KIP of K2, P2 to end of row* Turn.
Repeat the above armhole shaping row for the second armhole. (38/42/44 sts.)
Continue Row 1 until back measures 23“ long. Bind off.
Knit from shoulder to cuff.
Sleeve – (Make 2) – Cast on 28/32/36 Sts.
Row 1: * K2, P2 *
Repeat Row 1 until 2” long.
Decreasing –
Row 1: Continue in rib pattern.
Row 2: K2tog, then KIP.
Row 3: Continue in (rib) pattern.
(Note: The beginning stitches of the row will change, just continue to K the knit sts., and P the purl sts.) Repeat Row 1-3 until you have 20/24/26 stitches. Repeat Row 3 until 18” or desired length.
Knit from waist to shoulder.
Left Front (Without buttonholes) –
CO 24/28/32 sts.
Row1: * K2, P2 *
Repeat Row 1 until 13” long.
(RS) Armhole Shaping - *Bind off 4 sts. (20/24/28 sts.), Knit in pattern to end of row. Knit in pattern until 23” in length and ending with a WS row.
(Omit this next part if you are not doing the collar and BO all sts. now.)
Collar edge: BO all but 4 sts. KIP (These sts. are on the opposite edge from your armhole shaping.) Knit in Pattern for 5 more rows. BO.
Button Placement - (This is a simple eyeball method. If you have one you prefer, use it.) With RS of the Front facing you, (meaning the armhole is on the right and the slanting neckline is on the left), place your 1st button (no sewing at this point) ½” from the bottom edge and in the second column (knit column) from the edge. Position your remaining buttons evenly. When you are happy, use pins to mark these locations. You are now going to count and record what rows your buttonholes need to go on the Right Front Panel. Starting at the bottom, write down what rows these markers are on. Adjust to make them all even rows by adjusting up or down 1 row if necessary. These are your buttonhole rows for the next section.
Right Front (With buttonholes)-
Notes: Buttonholes are located in a purl column.
Knit Into Hole – This means that you want to lift a bar in the center of the gap produced by the BO and knit it. This produces a strong buttonhole. If this doesn’t make sense when you are at the buttonhole row, you can substitute a “Kf&b” for the “K1, Knit Into Hole” in the next stitch. This will work and keep rib pattern correct.
CO 26/30/34 sts.
(WS) Row 1: * P2, K2 *, P2
(RS) Buttonhole Row 2: K2, slip 1, P1, psso, *K2, P2* to end
Buttonhole Row 3: *K2, P2* to last 3 sts., K1, Knit into hole, P2 (26 sts)
Mark edge with buttonholes with a split marker
Continue in rib pattern and repeat Rows 2-3 every time you have a buttonhole placement row to do. KIP until 13” long.
(WS) Armhole Shaping - Make sure you are starting this row on the opposite edge from the buttonholes (check where your marker is). *Bind off 4 sts. *K2, P2* to end of row. (22/26/30 sts.)
(Omit this next part if you are not doing the collar and BO all sts. now.)
Collar edge: BO all but 4 sts. These sts. are on the opposite edge from your armhole shaping. Knit in Pattern for 6 rows. BO.
Seaming – Use a smooth, worsted weight, strong yarn in the same color to seam. This makes sewing easier and the seams won’t be bulky.
Seam collar edges together. Center the collar on the back panel and pin/secure it and the shoulders to the back panel and sew them by easing them to fit. (There are fewer back sts. than in front so you will not able to line up columns of ribbing.) Back panel will stretch to fit.
Sleeves: sew sleeve seam and leave the last 2” at the shoulder edge unsewn. This fits into the sleeve hole of front and back panels. Find and mark center top of each sleeve and pin top of sleeve hole on body at top of shoulder. Use clothespins or clips to position the front half of sleeve. (Sleeve will stretch to fit armhole.) Ease and seam from armpit to shoulder, then repeat with back half, seaming from shoulder back to armpit. Repeat with other sleeve. Sew back and front side seams. Sew buttons in place.
There are schematics on the Ravelry.com pdf of this pattern.
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