The document provides instructions for knitting a Little Hanten kimono. It describes how to knit the front panels by casting on stitches and increasing rows until there are 30 stitches. Safety pins are added to mark construction points. The back is knit with 60 stitches. Stitches are shaped at the shoulders and sleeves are added by picking up stitches along the armholes. The fronts and back are joined, then a front band is knit by picking up stitches along the edges and shoulders.
The document provides instructions for knitting a Little Hanten kimono. It describes how to knit the front panels by casting on stitches and increasing rows until there are 30 stitches. Safety pins are added to mark construction points. The back is knit with 60 stitches. Stitches are shaped at the shoulders and sleeves are added by picking up stitches along the armholes. The fronts and back are joined, then a front band is knit by picking up stitches along the edges and shoulders.
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The document provides instructions for knitting a Little Hanten kimono. It describes how to knit the front panels by casting on stitches and increasing rows until there are 30 stitches. Safety pins are added to mark construction points. The back is knit with 60 stitches. Stitches are shaped at the shoulders and sleeves are added by picking up stitches along the armholes. The fronts and back are joined, then a front band is knit by picking up stitches along the edges and shoulders.
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Knitting the front panels: Working the right and left back separately, work even for 1”/2.5 cm. • Cast on 2 sts • Row 1: Kfb, K1. You now have 3 stitches. • Row 2: Kfb, knit to end of row. You now have 4 stitches. JOINING THE SHOULDERS • Repeat row 2 twenty-six more times. You now have 30 stitches. Note: The right front has a safety pin on the right side, and the left front has a Turn the work and place a safety pin in safety pin on the wrong side. the middle of the triangle on the side With right sides together, sew front to facing you. The pins will be your guide to back at shoulders. constructing the kimono. Knitting the Sleeves SHAPING WITH INCREASES & DECREASES
Place markers for the underarm 4”/10 cm
• *Row 1: Kfb, K2 tog, turn. from shoulder seam on fronts and back • Row 2: and all even-numbered rows: at side seam. With right side facing and Knit beginning at underarm, pick up and knit • Row 3: Kfb, K1, K2 tog, turn. (see page 280) 22 stitches from shoulder • Row 5: Kfb, K2, K2 tog, turn. to seam to other marker. Work even in • Row 7: Kfb, K3, K2 tog, turn. garter stitch until sleeve measures 3”/7.5 • Continue in this manner, working 1 cm. Bind off. Repeat for second sleeve. more stitch before the decrease on every odd-numbered row until all Sew fronts and back together along the stitches have been worked. The last side and underarm seams. row will be kfb, K27, K2 tog, turn. • Do not work a knit row after this last Knitting the Front Band pattern row.** • Repeat from * to ** once more. With right side facing and beginning at bottom right front, pick up and knit 45 SHAPING THE SHOULDERS stitches to shoulder seam and 4 stitches from shoulder seam to back neck, K20 Next Row: K2 tog, knit to end of row. from holder, pickup and knit 4 stitches to Repeat this row until 2 stitches remain. shoulder seam and 45 stitches from K 2 tog and pull yarn through last loop. shoulder seam to bottom left front. You Panel measures approximately 10 ½ now have 118 stitches. inches/26.5 cm. Work even in garter stitch for 2”/5 cm, Make a second front panel the same as ending with a right-side row. Bind off the first. loosely in knit.
Knitting the Back
Cast on 60 stitches. Work even in garter stitch until piece measures 1”/2.5 cm less that front panels (approximately 9 ½”/24 cm).