A cropped cardigan or bolero for little girls. This has been designed to go over summer dresses and keep shoulders and chests warm, while still showing off the lovely skirts of the dresses. Please note that if you intend to use this over a long sleeve top you will need to upsize to get a bit more ease in the bolero.

There are 5 different edging finishes available for this pattern; plain garter stitch edge, garter with picot edge, garter with a bell pleat ruffle, garter with a plain ruffle and garter with a lace ruffle. Four sleeve options are available; cap sleeves, flutter sleeves, tapered 3/4 sleeves and tapered long sleeve.

This Bolero is knit all in one piece, with no seaming. The body of the bolero is knit flat on long circular needles. Then you pick up stitches along the neckline and front edges and knit this in the round. If doing a ruffle you continue to knit this flat from this point. Sleeves are knit in the round either on small circular needles or using magic loop or dpn’s.

This design is written in both Baby/Toddler sizes (0-3m to18m) and child sizes (2T-10yrs) patterns. I am selling these two patterns both separately and together in an ebook (at a discounted price).

This pattern is intended for personal home use only. Commercial use of this pattern is permitted only through a cottage license (knitting for charity does not require a license).

I just wanted to let my EU customers that while my singular patterns are now available on LoveKNitting I am still in the process of moving my ebooks over. They haven’t yet found a way to link ebooks with your ravelry libraries so I am pondering how I will deal with these. I would optimally love to have people be able to get automatic updates easily.

In the meantime if you live in a EU country and want to purchase one of my ebooks please contact me via email (stitchymama@gmail.com) and I will organise a email purchase and gift the product to you in your rav library.

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