Bond Machine Knitting - Baby Patterns
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:11:21 -0800
From: Linda Boudreau patrick.boudreau@ns.sympatico.ca
Subject: [BOND] Baby set Infant to 6 months - Pattern
Materials:- 3 - 2 ounce balls of astra or baby weight yarn.
Keplate # 2
Guage - 24 stitches x 32 rows = 4 inches.
Please check guage.
Sweater Back:-
Using waste yarn cast on 54 stitches.
Knit 6 rows.
Change to main colour.
Knit 6 rows.
Move every other needle to the adjacent needle ( picot hem being started ).
Make sure needles are still in working position and knit across row.
Knit 6 rows.
Rehang first row to last row just knit and knit across slowly, or wait until
the garment is finished and slip stitch this band in place.
Knit even for 44 rows.
Cast off 3 stitches at beginnning of next two rows.
Knit 6 rows.
Decrease one stitch each side every other row to 18 stithces remain.
Cast off.
Right Front:-
Using waste yarn cast on 30 stitches.
Knit 6 rows.
Change to main colour.
Knit 6 rows.
Move every other needle to the adjacnet needle ( picto hem being started ).
Knit 6 rows.
Knit even for 44 rows.
Cast off 3 stitches at beginning of next row.
Knit 6 rows even.
Decrease one stitch at armhole edge every alternate row for a total of 20 rows.
Cast off 4 stitches at neck edge.
Decrease one stitch each side every alternate row until 3 stitches remain.
Cast off loosely.
Left - Repeat as above reverse shaping.
Sleeves:-
Using waste yarn cast on 6 stitches.
Knit 6 rows.
Change to main colour.
Knit increasing one stitch each side very row on the next four rows.
Knit increasing one stitch each side every alternate row for 30 rows.
Knit 6 rows even.
Cast off 3 stitches beginning of the next two rows.
Knit even for 48 rows. on 42 stitches.
knit 6 rows.
Knit by placing every second stitch on adjacent needle.
Knit 6 rows.
Form picot hem by rehaning and knitting across.
Cast off loosely.
Knit another the same
Neckband:- At neck edge pick up and place on needle 22 stitches from front
- - 18 stitches from back and 22 stitches from other front. Work for 6 rows.
Form picot edge as above.
Front Band:- Rehang 48 stitches on 48 needles along front.
Knit 4 rows.
Knit transferring every second stitch to adjacent needle. ( Picot edge.
Knit 4 rows.
Joing as above.
Repeat for other side.
Bonnet:-
Using waste yarn cast on 60 stitches.
Knit 6 rows.
Change to main colour.
Knit 6 rows.
Form picot edge
Knit 6 rows.
Knit even for 40 rows.
Cast off loosely 20 stitches. knit to end.
Cast off loosely 20 stitches.
Working on remaining 20 stithces knit even for 35 rows.
Cast off.
Sew up side seams.
Make a twisted cord and attaach to bonnet, running it through the pictor edge.
Add ribbons if desired.
This can also be hooded as well by picking up the stitches along the
neckedge, and rib for 6 rows, then plain knit to desired length, end with
the pictor hem, sew up centre seam. Add ties.
This can also be ribbed adding ribbing to the sleeves and bottom
sweater as wella s the neckband, bottom of bonnet and around the face of the
bonnet.
This would be a great time to practise cables, add 4 extra stitches
for each cable you want to turn, centre it down the sleeve and on each of
the fronts.
This would be a great time to practise the lace hole techniques as
well as some fairisle.
Knit a plain one first...get the feel of it, and have fun.
Have fun bonding on the net.
" I cried because I had no shoes - until I met a man who had no feet."
" Live life one day at a time but make it a masterpiece."
patrick.boudreau@ns.sympatico.ca (Linda )
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:38:31 EST
From: Linda41947 Linda41947@aol.com
Subject: [BOND] baby bib pattern
OK here goes. I used one ball of sugar and cream or peaches and cream. a
ball and a half might be better as you could make the bib a little longer
since it will shrink.
keyplate 4
VERY simple pattern, but works great- the cotton absorbs the baby goo and
dribbled kool aid just great, and some of the colors in the yarn are so
pretty, the 3 yr old just loved the yellow varrigated.
I cast on 50 stitches (did an e wrap with one, and tried the crochet cast on,
on another - both worked great). I knit 50 rows (like I said 60 or so might be
better as this shrinks). Then I put half of the stitches in the non working or
holding position I'm not sure what its called but you move them all the way
forward. On the other half I decreased on both ends every row until I only
had 2 stitches left. then I knit about 30-40 rows for a tie, you can kind of
judge it about 9-10 inches long. then I did the same thing to the other side.
voila- a bib. Like I said a glorified dishcloth.
You really can't do it wrong. You could make it narrower and shorter for a
newborn spit bib. But the kid will grow soooo- why bother.
Took me about 30 minutes to make when the grand kids showd up with nice
clothes and wanted ice cream
Linda in Toledo
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:21:08 -0500
From: "gyotter" gyotter@nash.tds.net
Subject: [BOND] FW: Hooded back zipped baby sweater
Here is a pattern for a back zipped baby sweater I adapted to the
machine. The original, published in Country Handcrafts, had cows duplicate
st'ed on the hood and around the bottom. You can decorate freely with
intarsia, fairisle, duplicate st or do like me and take the easy way out
and use vareigated yarn.
If you can manage, do the 2 back pieces at the same time so the
weights are the same for the front and back for the same number of sts.
You can do this with an intarsia plate if you have one. Otherwise, watch
that a back doesn't have too much weight, or you end up with them
longer than the front. (Been there, done that!) I've been using a half
length hem of 50 sts with smaller bars. The zipper is easier to sew in if
you do the sweater thru sewing the hood together, then sew it in before the
side seams are done. Doing the zipper last after the whole
thing was done was harder than adding it after the hood. I just sewed it
on the sewing machine. The zipper tape stabilizes it while you work.
I had a nylon Unique zipper in the drawer that was the right color and
length. Didn't sew it in like it is supposed to be, just stitched up the
sides of it. It doesn't show any teeth from the front side when zipped.
I also tried doing a garter st edging along the zipper. It was more work
than it was worth and I thought it looked better when the zipper appeared
like a seam when closed.
Hooded Baby Sweater
Hand pattern by Marilyn Kranz, Killbuck, OH
adapted to the Bond by Ann Yotter
I used KP 2.5 - KP2 for ribbing the first time, KP 2 after that
You aren't so tight for yarn with KP2.
5 oz sport wgt yarn (I used ALL of 6 oz on KP 2.5)
I used Red Heart Baby Sport Pompadour
hand gauge: 5 sts, 7 rows = 1 " on #7 AM needles
(I got 4 x 6 on KP 2.5, 4.5 x 6.5 on KP2)
Chest measures 22" (Mine is ~25" for KP2.5, forgot to measure the KP2
before I mailed it)
Front:
Cast on closed on waste yarn 54 sts.
Work 7 rows of 1x1 ribbing. Knit 49 rows.
Bind off 2 sts at the beg of the next 2 rows.
Decr 1 st on each side on the next row - 48 sts
Work 1 row even, work another decrease row - 46 sts.
Work even until row 66.
Work 14 sts, place 14 st at other end in HP and run a strand of yarn thru
the center 18 sts and remove them from the machine. Now just work on one
side at a time. (Removing the center sts keeps the weight on the sts so
they don't pop off. Otherwise the short rows are hard to weight.)
Decr 1 st at neck edge (center)
Work 1 row even.
Decr 1 st at neck edge again - 12 sts.
Work even to row 75. Place on WY.
Join a new yarn strand at other end and repeat the neckline shaping on the
other side,
leaving 18 sts on a holder in the center. I worked both sides from the
outside edge going in instead of joining a strand in the center of the
front. Don't forget to reset your row counter.
Backs:
Cast on closed onto WY 26 st.
(Remember to work 2 pcs in mirror images).
Work 7 rows of 1x1 ribbing.
Work even for 49 (50)rows.
Bind off 2 sts on the armhole side on the next row.
I do this by working the first 3 sts by hand, then putting the last one
into HP and
finishing the row with the carriage. Return the st to FWP.
Work even to row 75, place on WY.
Shoulder seam:
Hang the 24 shoulder sts of one side of the back on the machine, right side
facing you. Push behind the latches. Rehang the 12 shoulder sts of the
front,wrong side facing you, in the hooks at the outside armhole edge,
then pull them thru the sts of the back. Leave the
extra 12 back sts in HP on the needles. Bind off the seam sts. (I did a
crochet bind off on these sts and ended up at the armhole and left a tail
for sewing later. I pull a loop thru the first st with a crochet hook,
then pull another loop thru the next st over AND the one on the hook.
Repeat across, leaving the sts on the hooks until finished, then remove
them all at once.
Hood : You still have 12 sts left on the back.
Rehang them so the wrong side is facing you, pick up 8 sts along
the front neck edge and rehang the remaining 9 sts of the front - 29 sts.
These 9 sts are half of the 18 that are in the center on a strand of
yarn. It is easier to find the spacing if you do the far 9 first, leaving
8 blank needles, then go back and space those sts. Leave the other 9 sts
on the yarn strand for the other side of the hood.
Reset the row counter to 0.
Knit 59 rows, working a 4 st band of garter st at the edge
coming out of the center front. Convert the 4 st to K when the carriage is
on that side of the work.
Place on waste yarn or a holder.
Repeat, joining the other shoulder seam and picking up and knitting the sts
for the other side of the hood. Rehang the 29 hood sts on the machine,
right side facing you, push behind the latches. Hang the other side of the
hood in the hooks, wrong side facing you, and pull thru the first set of
sts, then bind off the live loops. Now seam the back shut with
contrasting waste yarn doing an invisible seam and sew in the zipper under
the join. I used a 22" zipper and had about an inch of hood to seam above
the end of it. You put in the zipper upside down so you don't need a
separating one.
Sleeves: Make 2
Hang the armhole of the sweater ( including the
2 bound off sts at each end) on 38 needles with the shoulder seam centered,
put the 12 outside needles on each side in HP and knit the center 14 sts.
Then increase 1 st at each end of the next 10 rows until 34 needles are
working. - 11 rows
Do this by moving 1 st at each end of the 14 center ones from HP to FWP.
On the carriage side, bring the yarn under that needle so it loops outside
it and over the top of it as you knit the row.
Row 12 - Add 2 sts at each end on the next row.
Row 13 - Work even.
Knit even to row 55.
Decrease 8 sts by rehanging with every 4th st doubled up. - 30 sts
Work 7 rows of rib. Bind off. Sew up underarm/side seam.
I chained a drawstring and wove it at the
inside edge of the garter st band around the face to close up the face a
little if needed. The sts were plenty open for it.
The original pattern had a series of lace holes worked in the st st by the
garter st trim but I didn't find them necessary. I also put a tiny pom on
the point of the hood.
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