Sized from Newborn to Toddler, the Cogwheel baby cardigan knitting pattern works up quickly in a worsted weight wool or other baby-friendly fiber.

Knit this simple little sweater for your favorite future engineer or future physics professor. The colorwork is easy enough for a beginner, and mimics the look of cogs and gears. It’s sciencey, cute, and completely gender-neutral.

If you can knit stripes, then you can do slip stitch colorwork. Unlike other types of two-color knitting, slip-stitch patterns only require you to hold one strand of yarn at a time. So, there is no awkward juggling of multiple colors.

Required Skills
Long-tail cast-on
Knit
Purl
Slipping stitches purlwise
Picking up stitches
Backwards loop cast-on
Basic bind-off

Yarn
Worsted weight wool or other baby-friendly fiber

Main Color: 144 (177, 225, 264, 310, 336, 432) yards
Accent Color #1: 19 (19, 22, 22, 24, 24, 27) yards
Accent Color #2: 25 (25, 29, 29, 32, 32, 36) yards