Slip-stitch “gills” and white spots make the most out of a beret’s mushroom-like shape and turn your baby into a little toadstool! Sizes from baby to small grown-up mean the whole family can be toadstools together!

Adorable hedgehog faces and moss stitch “spines” make these mittens the cutest way to keep your loved one warm this winter!

I cobbled together this cowl as a present for my mom and to use up some really nice fingering cashmere I had from School Products. It’s kind of a combination of the shape/button of Knitty Gritty Thoughts’ Spiral Cowl (a pattern you know I love) with the stitch pattern in Leila Raabe’s Shaelyn, another beautiful pattern I’m dying to try. I have ...

I cobbled together this cowl as a present for my mom and to use up some really nice fingering cashmere I had from School Products. It’s kind of a combination of the shape/button of Knitty Gritty Thoughts’ Spiral Cowl (a pattern you know I love) with the stitch pattern in Leila Raabe’s Shaelyn, another beautiful pattern I’m dying to try. I have ...

Finished Measurements 21” (22”, 25”) chest, 10.5” (11”, 12.5”) long

This is the pattern for Cardigan B only of the Steps to Stranded Baby Cardigan packet. For the whole packet (at a discount!), see the pattern page for Steps to Stranded Baby Cardigans.

This is the pattern for Cardigan C only of the Steps to Stranded Baby Cardigan packet. For the whole packet (at a discount!), see the pattern page for Steps to Stranded Baby Cardigans.

Special note: from now until 2/14 I will donate 50% of the proceeds from my pattern sales to the American Red Cross for relief efforts in Haiti.

Want to try fair isle or stranded knitting? New to knitting and want to learn simple shaping and finishing techniques? These baby cardigan patterns are perfect first steps. All three are top-down, circular yoke sweaters with little to no seaming. All three also make great use of leftover sock yarn, if you have some hanging around!

This is a “teaching” pattern. There is an extensive appendix at the end with an abbreviations glossary, instructions, and lots of photos illustrating the techniques used in the pattern. If you already know how to do all these things, by all means, the appendix is unnecessary, but if you don’t, my hope is that you will by the time you finish kni...

A top-down, circular yoke cardigan for babies in three sizes. This pattern does involve some flat stranded knitting, so be forewarned! This is a good pattern to try if you are a first-time stranded stockinette knitter or a first time sweater knitter, as there are only a few rows of stranded patterning and there is virtually no seaming.

A top-down, circular yoke cardigan for babies in three sizes. This pattern does involve some flat stranded knitting, so be forewarned! This is a good pattern to try if you are a first-time stranded stockinette knitter or a first time sweater knitter, as there are only a few rows of stranded patterning and there is virtually no seaming.

The child-sized version of this pattern.

This sweater is a top-down, fitted cardigan styled after the practical but flattering fashions of the 1940s and 50s. With its small vintage details like seed-stitch yoke, slightly puffed sleeves, and demure cable framing the button band, it seems to me like the kind of sweater a college co-ed might have worn to class. So I named it after Radcli...

This sweater was inspired by one in Gibson-Roberts’ and Robson’s Knitting in the Old Way. This version is much simplified and resized for baby.

This sweater was inspired by one in Gibson-Roberts’ and Robson’s Knitting in the Old Way. This version is much simplified and resized for baby.

Note: the pdf download is missing a few errata that are changed on the version that is on my blog. Until further notice, I would recommend using the blog version. The things that are different are the instructions to decrease 1 stitch on each side of the sleeve, not on just one side, and to work one purl row before starting the feather-and-fan ...

Note: as the photos of finished products clearly show, the pattern as I wrote it up reversed the asymmetry from my original sweater (the button band was on the left rather than the right side of the sweater). It doesn’t really matter, but I changed the pattern so that your finished products will look like my finished product.

This pattern was inspired by a sweater worn by Lucy in the Chronicles of Narnia movie that came out in 2005. The original movie sweater was apple green with red and yellow diamond-shaped flowers down the front placket and a seed stitch yoke with set-in sleeves. This version simplifies the flowers and converts the sweater style to top-down raglan.

This pattern was inspired by the beautiful mittens posted on the Riga NATO Summit website. There are many features about it that are traditional, like the pointed top and the stranding patterns, but there are many that are not traditional, like the thumb gore and the narrower wrist.