Design B - Boleros, Berets, and Blanket by Sirdar

Design B - Boleros, Berets, and Blanket

by Sirdar
Knitting
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in stocking stitch on 4mm/US6 needles
US 6 - 4.0 mm
US 3 - 3.25 mm
386 - 965 yards (353 - 882 m)
Birth - 7 years (chest 16-26"/41-66cm)
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Cabled bolero cardigans and berets, with a matching blanket.

Sizes: to fit chest
0-6 mo (chest size 16”/41cm)
6-12 mo (chest size 18”/46cm)
1-2 yrs (chest size 20”/51cm)
2-3 yrs (chest size 22”/56cm)
4-5 yrs (chest size 24”/61cm)
6-7 yrs (chest size 26”/66cm)

Blanket measures 18 x 24” / 46 x 61cm

Yarn Requirements: DK weight, 50g balls
Cardigan with striped borders
A: 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) ball
B: 2 (2, 3, 4, 4, 5) balls
C: 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) ball
Beret with striped border
A: 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) ball
B: 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) ball
C: 1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) ball
Plain cardigan
2 (3, 3, 4, 5, 5) balls
Plain beret
1 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) ball
Blanket
A: 3 balls
B: 1 ball
C: 1 ball

Available both in Sirdar book 324 “Vintage Snuggly DK Knits” and as a single-pattern leaflet (2220).

This pattern is also published in Finnish in Moda 6/2007 (pattern 46, Tytön palmikkojakku).

Let’s Knit! printed the pattern for the beret from this set in their ‘Snuggle Up’ supplement free with issue 25.