Little Red Riding Hood by Ingvill Freland

Little Red Riding Hood

Knitting
April 2014
Sport (12 wpi) ?
28 stitches = 4 inches
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
English

Measures:
Chest: 80 (80) 86 cm
Full length: 58 (62) 66 cm
Arms: 52 (54) 56 cm
(The measurements for the chest may look small,
but the sweater has a lot of stretch, so knit your normal size.
When it comes to the length of the arms,
they are very long before you put it on and make puff sleeves.)
Yarn:
Baby Silk (80 % baby alpaca og 20 % silk) by Du
Store Alpakka
Faerytale (100 % alpaca) by Du Store Alpakka
Yarnage:
Baby Silk, red no 310: 350 (350) 400 g
Faerytale, red no 711: 150 (150) 150 g
Needles:
Baby Silk: Double pointed needles and long circular needle no 2,5 (US 1.5)
Faerytale: Double pointed needles, and short circular needle no 4.5 (US 7)
Gauge:
Baby Silk: 28st on no 2.5 (US 1.5) = 10 cm
The gauge when knitting the rib is hard to measure,
so make sure the gauge is correct when knitting garter stich.
Make sure the rib isn’t knitted looser then the garter stich.
Faerytale: 18 st on needle 4.5 (US 7) = 10 cm