Ami

A great pullover is almost like having a really good friend! This little gansey is comfortable, warming, easy-going. Perfect for kinder-garten, or school, as well as for play. If you love a henley, classic lines and patterning this sweater combines them all. **Design and construction** The sweater features Guernsey-patterned sections on the lower body, as well as the upper sleeves. The upper body is worked in double moss-st. The construction is **seamless**, apart from the few sts at the bottom of the button-bands towards the body. The body is worked bottom-up and in-the-round to underarms, where work is divided for fronts and back to be continued in separate pieces. Shoulders are bound off using the 3-needle bind-off method. The sleeves are worked top-down and in-the-round. Button-bands and neckline are worked from picked-up sts. **Sizes** Size 1: 0 - 3months / Size 2: 6- 12months Size 3: 2 years / Size 4: 2 – 4 yrs / Size 5: 5 – 6 yrs Size 6: 7 – 8 yrs Finished chest measurement: 43/50/57/64/71/78 cm = 17/19.5/22.5/25/28/30.5” **Materials** Yarn: I used Alegria from Manos del Uruguay to work the sweater. This yarn of fingering weight comes in skeins of 100 gr/3.53 oz and 405 meters/447 yards. You will need approximately 300/375/450/525/600/750 meters= 327/410/490/575/655/820 yards of this specific yarn to work the sweater. You might substitute for any fingering weight yarn that knits up to gauge. Needles: size 3.5 mm/US4 for working the main body, and sleeves. Size 3 mm/US2.5 for working the hems/cuffs/button-bands and the neckline. **Gauge** 28 sts and 36-38 rounds/rows in stockinette sts = 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4" **The pattern** The Guernsey-patterns are charted. The double moss-st is written out. There is a schematic. All measurements are in cm's as well as in inches. All necessary stitch-counts are given. **Knitting skills** Level: intermediate. Tecniques involved: cast-on, picking up sts, simple increases/decreases. Following a chart (for knit and purl sts only).