A family friend has a house in Florida and is going to bring me back an American Girl Samantha, so that I have a model for my doll dressmaking.

She will arrive early November and as I had an urge to pick up the needles instead of the hook for a change, I thought I would make a nice aran cardigan for her, or that is my intention. Granddaughters Annabel or Eva may have other ideas if it takes their fancy for one of their dolls. I gifted this in the end to my great niece Sophie for her doll.

Annabel has an American Girl doll and I bought Eva an Our Generation doll, so they could play every Thursday when they come to tea. I bought Our Generation Sienna for my house too, so that I could use her as a model and the girls could play with her too.

I dug out my knitting patterns and found this simple pattern. I was surprised that I would have to make the smallest size, I though I may have to reduce the number of stitches, but as I am using finer yarn and needles, I started with 58 sts for the back.

I am enjoying making this little cardigan and hope that the size turns out to be o.k.

Notes to Self:

Back
58 sts 3mm needles for rib

3.25 needles for rest

Work until back measures 6.5” 8 cables +

Front

27 sts + 5 for button band

work straight until 4.75” finishing at neck edge 6 cables

Neck shaping
Cast off 3 sts pattern to end
dec 1 st at neck edge on every row until 19sts.
Continue without further shaping until front measures same as back.

Sleeves

cast on 29 work 8 rib rows
Inc rib every 4 sts until 34 sts.

Work blackberry stitch increasing on 5th row and every 2nd row until 40st then every following 4th row until 50 sts, work straight until desired length.