Sweater Techniques Series : Gramps baby cardigan
Knitting a baby sweater is the perfect way to learn all the sweater techniques that would be necessary to knit an adult sweater, in a fraction of the time, and with a hopelessly adorable result! Our recently published Gramps cardigan is a perfect example, for while it is a relatively simple design, its simplicity requires a good number of intermediate knitting techniques.
Follow along as you knit your Gramps, and you will learn about:
- how to read a knitting pattern schematic
- how to do a provisional cast on
- how a top-down raglan is shaped
- pattern reading
- picking up stitches along an edge and in the middle of the fabric
- short row shaping
- buttonholes
- weaving in ends
The tutorial split into 6 blog posts – start with #1 and work your way through!
Learning to knit a sweater is very rewarding, and you’ll get to do it quickly and relatively painlessly if you follow along and knit the Gramps with me! ~ Emily
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I wanted to say thank you for this beautiful tutorial along with the handsome baby boy, smile.
Sweater techniques parts 1-5 how can I get them? This is my first time on this website and am loving it. I know I will learn alot! Thank you so much!
Hi Jean – all five links are on this page: http://blog.tincanknits.com/gramps-tutorial/
And you can purchase the sweater pattern to follow along with the tutorial here: http://tincanknits.com/pattern-9M-gramps.html