Wee Willie Whistle

A pattern from Louisa Harding, featuring a front pocket and contrasting coloured edging on neckbank and wrist. The design is simple to knit and works up quickly on aran weight yarn. The pattern is only sized to a 3-4 year old size, but is easy to size up slightly if required.

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Rowan - Miss Bea's Band Rowan ASC 5 slick + 1 misty none required 4.5mm, 4 mm 85 meters/50g Liberty Sale 2004 Slick, Misty 4-5 yo (sized up) 8 August 2004 14 August 2004 None TBD

It's really very difficult to find nice patterns for boys. By nice, I mean, interesting to look at and interesting to knit. Girls really do have all the luck here. Wee Willie Whistle is an exception. I could had chosen a more interesting colour for more excitement, but I like the 2 greys together. The pocket is interesting to work. Surprisingly, Louisa Harding provides instructions for a 3 needle bind off. I mean surprising because that's how most experienced knitters do the should bind-off, eventhough knitting patterns never tell you to do it that way.

To size the jumper up, I added 12 rows to the body, 6 rows below the armhole and 6 rows in the armhole. I increased the sleeve length by 1.25 inches and did 2 extra increases on the sleeve shapping (so I added 4 additional stitches)





Project Notes

1. By increasing the body of the sweater, I also had to work in extra rows into the pocket shaping.





2. Otherwise, as really straight-forward design. Kristine tells me that there is a mistake in the chart. Afraid that I didn't notice. With such a simple pattern, I just write down the instructions and knit. I like charts for last, fair isle and intarsia, but for stocking stitch, I prefer text.







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