For any mother knitting sweater, herself for her baby is a very important and precious experience but not every mother is experienced in this process naturally which means in order to be successful in making baby sweater by knitting you will have to be aware of the few things about the process, the materials to use and the things to keep in mind.
If these things are kept in mind you will surely have a very adorable yet basic baby sweater with ease and keep in mind that it does not matter if you have not knit a baby sweater in your life ever before, if you follow these following instructions carefully you will most likely not require any further or past experience to do this yourself. The actual time that this process will take depends upon the size of the sweater that you are trying to make so without wasting much time let’s start the process.
Items required
There will be a few things that you will require for the process of knitting a baby sweater and if these things are not in hand the whole process can be very tiresome and frustrating. So, to not add to the frustration we would highly recommend you to get all of these things at hand. The things that you will require during the process are:
- Yarn needle and Scissors for finishing
- 4 Duffle coat toggles
- Knitting needles
- 220 yards of chunky yarn as per your choice
Gauge
In order to knit this part of the baby sweater, you will need to follow the following things carefully.
8 rows and 3.5 per inch in garter stitch size.
Size
If you are making the sweater for a newborn or a bay that is 6 or 3 months old, you will need to use the smallest size available:
- Length from back neck 7.5 (8.5, 9.5, 11) inches
- Chest size of the finished garment 14 (16, 18, 20.5) inches
Sweater back
Using a size 9 needle you will have to cast stitches and the number of these stitches depends upon the size that can range from 24, 28, 32, and 36.
After that, you will have to knit every single row until the piece equals the size that can range from 4.75, 5.5, 6, and 7 inches.
Now you will have to bind off 3 (3, 4, 4) stitches at the starting of the following two rows, which will leave you with 18 (22, 24, 28) stitches.
After that, you will have to continue to work in garter stitch which means you will have to continue knitting every row until the piece measures 7.5 8.5 9.5 11.
The last thing to do in this segment is to bind off.
Fronts
To knit this part of the baby sweater, you will need to follow the following things carefully.
Before beginning to understand how you will have to knit the front of this sweater, you will need to understand that there are two front pieces in a sweater one with buttonholes and another one with buttons.
First front
In order to knit this part of the baby sweater, you will need to follow the following things carefully.
Using a size 9 needle you will have to cast stitches and the number of these stitches depends upon the size that can range from 16, 18, 22, and 24.
After that, you will have to knit every single row until the piece equals the size that ranges from 4.75, 5.5, 6, and 7 inches.
Now the next thing that you have to do is bind off the number of stitches that can amount to 3 (3, 4, 4) at the starting off of the following row. This will be on the armhole edge. After this, you will find that there are 13, 15, 18,20 stitches still remaining.
You have to continue working in garter stitch and that means knitting of every row until the piece measures 7.5 (8.5, 9.5, 11) inches in a way where share it is ending at the bound off stitches is opposite edge.
After that, you will have to bind off the number of stitches that are equal to 9, 10, 12, 12 at the starting of the following row. This will be the neck edge and after that, you will need to continue knitting for the shoulder, the last step is to bind off.
Second front
For the second front, each and everything mentioned above will apply and the only difference is you will have to make additional pattern holes by knitting one and two together.
Sleeves
For the sleeves you will have to use again this size 9 needle to cast on stitches that are numbered 20 21 25 28 after that you will have to work in garter stitch by meeting each and every row until the piece measures 5 6 7 8 inches.
The last step hair is to bind off and make the second sleeve in the same exact way.
Assembling
The final step of completing knitting a baby sweater is to assemble the various parts developed by you and you can use yarn for this sewing of the different pieces.
In the following manner, you can use yarn for all the Sewing
- Shoulder seams by attaching the top of the two fronts to the top of the back
- After that, you will have to sew the sleeves inside the armholes
- The final step is to sew the sleeve and side seams
