Peeking Bear by Hennie

Peeking Bear

by Hennie
Knitting
December 2018
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in St st
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 3 - 3.25 mm
306 - 612 yards (280 - 560 m)
14,16,18,20 22 inch chest
English
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A cute bear peeking over a rib wall. The bear is knitted using intarsia with the facial features added later using a duplicate stitch.

Shoulder fastening makes it easy for baby/child to wear.

The bear is knitted from a chart, other stitches used are garter st (every row a knit row) stocking stitch(knit 1 row, purl 1 row) and rib stitch - Knit 3, Purl 3

Increases are Knit Forward and Back in same stitch and decreases are two stitches worked together.

A full ball of contrast colour is not needed, only around 10g I used stylecraft life dk in mustard for blue sweater & paintbox simply dk in soft fudge for cream sweater

Stitch markers are used just to place chart.