Breton by Alice Starmore

Breton

Knitting
4-ply wool and cotton
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
28 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 2 - 2.75 mm
child age 4, 6, 8, 10 years
English

Nautical sweater from the coast of Brittany. Body is worked in one piece to the armhole. Sweater has underarm gussets and buttoned shoulders.

The sweater requires 3 or 4 (depending on size) 50-gram skeins of the main color and 2 or 3 50-gram skeins of the contrast color. Six buttons are also required.