Laharen Skirt by anuradha shukla

Laharen Skirt

Knitting
May 2017
Sport (12 wpi) ?
18 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette st
US 7 - 4.5 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
502 - 1506 yards (459 - 1377 m)
4-5yrs (6-7yrs, 8-9yrs, 10-11yrs, 12-13yrs, 14-15yrs, 16yrs)
English

A short, flared skirt is all you need to cheer a little girl. She goes round and round with the swirl of the skirt and you can not stop thinking how little things that cheer them up!!

“Drop a pebble in the water and it’s ripples reach out far”
Laharen is about those beautiful ripples in water which space out as they move. I took the cable pattern as the ripples in the contrast of evergreen reverse stockinette.

Size
This pattern comes in variety of sizes for the girl from as small as 4yrs to as big as 16yrs.

Finished size:
4-5yrs(6-7yrs, 8-9yrs, 10-11yrs, 12-13yrs, 14-15yrs, 16yrs)
To fit waist sizes:22’’ (23’’, 24’’, 25’’, 25’’, 27’’, 28’’); 56(58, 61, 64, 64, 69, 71)cm
To fit hip sizes: 24’’ (26’’, 28’’, 30’’, 32’’, 34’’, 36’’); 61(66, 71, 76, 81, 86, 91)cm

Yarn
Nako Saten (100% premium acrylic; 250yards230meters/ 100gm): 2,(3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6)balls
Please note that this yarn didn’t retain the ribbing after wash. So I suggest washing your swatch first to test and choose the yarn with more structure.

Gauge
18 sts and 28 rows = 4” 10 cm in St st after wet blocking.

Materials needed
Size US 7 (4.5 mm)/US 4 (3.5mm) 24” or bigger circular needle, Big stitch marker for marking beginning of the row, small stitch markers for marking pattern repeats, four to seven 0.5”(1.5cm) Buttons, Cable needle, Tapestry needle

This pattern is worked top down. The waist band with buttonholes is worked flat in elastic ribbing with smaller needles.
The body of the skirt is worked in round using the bigger circular needles.