SNOOZE SACK WITH OPTIONAL CABLE

YARN, GAUGE, SIZE AND MACHINE Versions for standard, bulky and mid-gauge machines are included. European double bed machines and Japanese machines with matching ribbers are both good choices. The second bed does need the same needle spacing as the first. There are a few older models of machines that do have ribbers but the ribbers only have needles in every other needle space compared to the main bed. Such machines cannot do this work. A ribber required for the embossed cable and is helpful for the plain version of the sack. The written instructions are for ribber use. However, if you are familiar with re-forming stitches to manually create ribbing and have enough pato make quite a lot of it, the plain cable-less sack or one with a Wanderlust cable is certainly possible to accomplish on a single bed machine.
The sack is given in 4 sizes, intended for preemies, average newborns, 6 month old, and 12 months old. The sack portion of the project finishes to 14.5, 16.5, 18.5, 20.5” wide, excluding the ribbing, and 1618, 20, 24” long. The hood portion finishes to a length of 67, 8, 9” long. The sample is a newborn size using bulky yarn. It is very easy to alter size to your specific requirements if desired. Simply add or subtract stitches to alter the width of the bag and add or subtract the same number of rows before and after the yarn marker to alter length. The sizes vary slightly from gauge to gauge. The bulky version is for worsted weight yarn getting 4 stitches/ 6 rows per inch. The mid-gauge version is for DK yarn getting 5.5 stitches/8 rows/ inch. The standard version is for fingering yarn getting 7 stitches/10 rows per inch. If knitting the sack plain, without the cable or knitting a wanderlust cable, any yarn that gets the gauge may be used. For the cabled version, it is super important that the yarn be very soft and that it be knitted at a slightly loose gauge. That is because the cable in use poses a significant challenge to the machine. Details about that are included in the previous Two Kinds of Travelling Cables article that is also part of the pattern bundle in the Snooze Sack Etc file. The cable is the same for all gauges but the 8 or 10 row repeat occurs a different number of times for each gauge. You may choose to work 2 cables side by side if you’d like extra texture on the two finer gauges.