​Leaves Ornament Blouse

Size: S (M)

You'll need:

750 g of white yarn Baumwoll-Cable (100% cotton; 135m/50g);

Knitting needles 3.

Rib: 2 knit, 2 purls by turn.

Garter st: right and wrong sides rows: knit sts. In circle rows knit 1 circle row of knit sts and 1 circle row of purls by turn.

Double Pearls Ornament: 1 knit, 1 purl by turn, shifting sts in each right side row.

Leaves Stripe: knit due to the scheme, on which only right side rows are stated, in wrong side rows knit due to the pattern, knit yo with purls. Repeat the pattern. Repeat once from 1st to 30th rows, then repeat from 15th to 30th rows.

Note: the quantity of sts varies. In the 1st row the quantity of sts = 24 sts. The following instructions for sts quantity are from the stripe width of 27 sts.

Stitch Сontrol

Leaves Stripe: 1 pattern = 9 cm and 36 rows = 10cm;

Garter st: 28 sts and 44 circle rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Back/Front

Cast on 122 (136) sts and knit them between selvedge sts with 1 cm rib. Then knit between selvedge sts from leaves with 0 (3) sts of double pearls ornament from both sides = 137 (145) sts with the width of stripe = 27 sts. In 33,5 cm from the rib bind off 4 sts from both sides in each 2nd row 4 x 2 and 6 x 1 sts . Leave the sts on the height of arm-holes.

Yoke

Cast on 95 (101) sts and knit with 1 cm rib for the sleeves. Place the front and right sleeve sts on the needles, then place the sts of back and left sleeve. Continue work on all the sts with circle rows, continue center leaves stripes of front and back, knit garter st between them. On the height of yoke is 4 cm, place a marker for arm-holes continuation of 1 st and in each 2nd circle row knit 2 knittog (= 8 sts in a circle row) before and after these sts. On the height of yoke is 13 cm, knit 1 cm rib on all the sts and bind them off.

Assembly

Make and iron the side seams.