8410B - Woman's Top, Button Neck by Dale Design

8410B - Woman's Top, Button Neck

Knitting
January 1997
Sport (12 wpi) ?
24 stitches and 30 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 0 - 2.0 mm
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
1140 - 1368 yards (1042 - 1251 m)
Small, Medium and Large
English Norwegian

SUMMARY: This is a sleeveless, woman’s, front button placket neck top. The length is 26¾” - 28⅜” from lower edge to underarm. The lower edge includes vents at the side seams. It features an overall diamond lattice design worked in purl stitches on a knit background. The lower, vent and armhole edges and the neckband are all worked in a K2, P2 ribbing. The vent, armhole and neck edgings are picked-up from the completed body pieces and knit on in the finishing steps.

This pattern as also shown in a long version without the front button plackets (C) and in a simple, short version (A). 8410B Crew

SIZES: Small (Medium, Large)

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS: 41¾ (44, 46½)” / 106 (111.5, 118) cm

YARN REQUIREMENTS: Fine weight yarn (Sport or 5-ply), Dalegarn Kolibri.

B – 500 (550, 600) g / 1140 (1254, 1368) yds / 1100 (1210, 1320) m / 10 (11, 12) balls.

COLOUR SUGGESTIONS:

Orange #3209, Red #3808, Light Orange #2709, Light Blue #5824, Blue-Lavender #5634 and Deep Blue-Lavender #5646.

NOTIONS: 3 buttons.

CHARTS INCLUDED: 1 stitch pattern chart.
Neither the book nor the yarn is commercially available but can sometimes be found on eBay or other selling/trading sites.