Bouquet de fleurs cardigan

This pattern is tested by a large group of testers. **List of testers at the bottom of these notes.** **Sizes** Finished chest measurements, after washing/blocking and worked at gauge: Size 1: 0 – 3 months: 42 cm/16.5” Size 2: 3 – 6 months: 46 cm/18” Size 3: 6 – 9 months: 50 cm/19.75” Size 4: 1 year – 18 months: 53 cm/21” Size 5: 2 years: 56.5 cm/22.5” Size 6: 3 – 4 years: 60 cm/24” The sample is worked in size 1, 0 - 3 months. **Construction and design elements** The cardigan is worked top-down and seamlessly. The neck is shaped by a few short-rows (to make it deeper in front than in the back). The upper-body is worked flat, and it's shaped by raglan-increases. Thereafter you work a great portion of the Bouquet de Fleurs-lace. It really reminds me of bunches of flowers! The sleeves are worked in the round from underarms to bind-off. The button-bands are worked from picked-up sts along the fronts. The fit is classic, with a crew-neck and long sleeves (you may easily modify to work a short-sleeved version). **Materials** **Yarn:** I recommend a lace or fingering weight yarn, with great stitch-definition, that works up to gauge. I used the lace weight yarn ”Sunday” from Sandnes Garn, in the colourway 1015, to work the cardigan. This yarn comes in balls of 50 gr/1.76 oz, and 235 m/257 yards. Of this specific yarn you will need approximately: 230/275/325/350/400/475 m = 250/300/355/385/440/520 yards. A different yarn than the sample may require more yardage. **Needles** Size 3 mm/US2.5 **Notions**8 removable stitch-markers, waste yarn, blocking tools, 6/7/7/8/8/8 buttons 12 – 13 mm /0.5” across. **Gauge** 28 sts and 38 - 40 rounds/rows in stockinette sts (and also the lace-pattern) = 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4" **Knitting techniques and skills** - Skills: intermediate - Cast-on, bind-off - Backwards cast-on (link in pattern) - Short-rows, to shape neck (explained) - working lace, following charts and/or written instructions - working flat (back and forth) - working in the round - picking up and knit sts (for the button-bands) **The pattern** -The pattern is tested by a large group of testers (read below) -The lace is charted, as well as written out, row-by-row -There is a schematic -All measurements are given in cm's, as well as in inches **This pattern has been tested. Thanks to my wonderful and talented testers:** alexahen / alisoncuteknits / Carmen73 / craftycoach / dianedelouw / ejmsasha eyenowhour / fuzzywuzzypanda / itssewkimmy / knitabitknitwit / knitwitch47 Kyracrochet / LenaDziuba / nathalie59 / Scjc28 / sleepyhollow51 / tastywench Teeliebhaberin / Tirinella / ultragold / Utopia5580 / Yenxa