Seaside Sweater

An easy, soft sweater with classic stripes. Can be worn all year around. Knitted bottom-up. Separated by the sleeves. Cotton will stretch when used.
Sizes
1-2 (3-4) 5-6 (7-8) y
7-8 y for free below, the rest can be bought here.

Yarn (Main colour / Pattern colour)
Pickles Thin Organic Cotton
150/100 (150/100) 200/150 (200/150) g

Needles
24” and 32”  US  6
Crochet hook E

Gauge per 4”
17 s / 23 rows

Measurements, lying flat:
Chest width: 11.4 (13.4) 14.5 (16.1)”
Length: 15 (16.5) 18.5 (20)”
The body
Cast on 140 s on the shortest circular needle. Use the main colour and knit 8 rounds in stockinette.
Start knitting stripes of 4 and 4 rounds until the piece is about 13.3)”

Front and back pieces and sleeves
Knit the front piece (70 s) back and forth in stockinette and continue with the stripy pattern.  Use the longest circular needles and on the first row make 10 new stitches for sleeves by making backward loops on the needle. Increase 10 s at the end of the next row as well.
Make 5 new s at the end of each row 8 times in total for sleeves = 170 s.
If you´re workins in the pattern colour, finish the stripe, then start working in main colour only until the piece is 20”. Place the stitches on some spare needles. Knit the back piece in the same way.

Neck
For seamless shoulders, use kitchener´s stitch and assemble like this (look up kitchener´s stitch on youtube.com if you´re not familiar with this technique):

Weave together the first 64 s using kitchener´s stitch. Cast off 42 s loosely (on both pieces), weave together the next 64 s using kitchener´s stitch.

Sew the sleeves together along the underarms.

Single crochet small loops as button holes in each side of the neck opening, and assemble buttons to fit.

Seaside sweater

SUMMER EDITION
WINTER EDITION
Sizes
1/2 (3/4) 5/6 (7/8) y
Size 7-8 for free belov. The other sizes can be bought here.

Yarn for summer (colour 1/colour2)
200 g/100 g (200 g/100 g) 200 g/200 g (200 g/200 g) Abuelita Organic Cotton or Pickles Thin Organic Cotton.

Yarn for Winter (colour 1/colour2)
200 g/200 g (250 g/200 g) 300 g/200 g (350 g/250 g) Pickles Soft Superwash

Needles
Short and long circular needles US 7/just long ones for the bigger sizes
Crochet needle E

Gauge per 4”
16-17 stitches
This easy sweater is knitted in one piece from the bottom up. The piece is parted when starting to work the arms, and front and back piece is knitted separately from here. Cotton makes the garment very stretchy, and especially the arms get stretched after wearing it. You can also knit it in wool. We recommend that you´ll add 2" to the length as wool makes the bottom edge roll up much more.

The body piece
Cast on 140 stitches on the short circular needles Use colour 1. Knit 8 rounds.
From here you´ll knit stripes of four and four rounds in colour 1 and 2. Start knitting with colour 2.
Knit until the piece is about 13“. If you can, it looks nice to stop just after finishing colour 1 or 2, but you don´t have to.

Tip: To make jogless stripes we do the following: Knit a round of the new colour. When you reach the first stitch knitted in the new colour, you knit this stitch TOGETHER with the stitch in the old colour on the row below.

Arms
Time to separate the work. Continue with the stripes like before, and knit in stockinette.
Start working the frontpiece. Knit 70) stitches using the long circular needles. Cast on 10 stitches at the end of the row. Turn, purl all the way back, and cast on 10 stitches here as well.
Continue knitting like this, and cast on 5 stitches at the end of each row 8 times in total = 170 stitches. From here on knit using colour 1 (finish of the row of colour 2 if you´re in the middle of it). But the stitches on a thread or a spare circular needle (doesn´t have to be the exact same size, as you won´t use it for knitting) when the piece is 17.7” .

Knit the back piece in the same way.
Summer edition in Pickles Thin Organic Cotton.

Neck
For a seamless assembly we´ve used the kitchener’s stitch.

Tip: Check out the video instrucktions for kitchener's stitch here. When you get into it it really isn’t that hard!
 
If you prefer to cast off and sew the shoulders together, you can off course do that instead.

This is how we assembled the shoulders:
Work in the kitchener’s stitch over the first 64 stitches, cast off 42 stitches LOOSELY (on both front and back piece), work in the kitchener’s stitch over the next 64 stitches.

Sew as neatly as you can under the arms as well.

Make small loops in the neck openeing for the back piece using chain stitches. We made two, but you can make more if you want to. Assemble the buttons, and you´re all done!