​Knit Jacket for Small Girl

You’ll need:

200g of 100% acryl yarn in dark-peach color;

Knitting needles 5,5 and 6;

4 buttons;

130 cm of velvet lace in brown color.

Size: 3 years.

Stitches control: fancy pattern: 13 sts x 18 rows = 10 x 10 cm;

WS garter stitch: 11 sts x 22 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Back

Cast on 44 sts with knitting needles 5,5 and work due to the scheme. At 21 cm height, continue work with WS garter stitch with knitting needles 6, decrease 8 sts in the 1^st row = 36 sts. In 2 cm from patterns change, decrease 3 x 1 st in every 2^nd row. At 37 cm height, bind off 9 sts for each shoulder and 12 sts for the neck-hole.

Right Front

Cast on 25 sts with knitting needles 5,5 and make 5 sts of WS garter stitch as fastener, make the rest 20 sts of the pattern due to the scheme, start with 3 knit sts instead of 2 purls. At 21 cm height, continue work with WS garter stitch and knitting needles 6, decrease 4 sts in the 1^st row = 21 sts. In 2 cm, make arm-hole from the side seam in the same way, as for back. At 31 cm height, bind off 5 sts, 2 sts and 2 x 1 st in every 2^nd row from the opposite side. At 37 cm height, bind off 9 sts for shoulder.

Left Front

Make in symmetry to the right front.

Sleeves

Cast on 24 sts with knitting needles 5,5 and work due to the scheme. At 12 cm height, continue work with WS garter stitch and knitting needles 6, decrease 4 sts in the 1^st row = 20 sts. Make increases in the following way: 4 x 1 st in every 6^th row from both sides = 28 sts. At 24 cm height, decrease 3 x 1 st in every 2^nd row, then, bind off 3 x 2 sts and the rest 10 sts. Total height is about 31 cm.

Assembly

Make seams and sew up the sleeves in the arm-holes. For the collar, cast on the sts along the neck-hole line with knitting needles 5,5, leave open sts for the fastener placket, make 7 cm of WS garter stitch and bind off the sts. Make 4 button-holes on the right front. Sew buttons to the left front. Insert the velvet lace along the line of patterns change.