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Afghans
Baby This jumper dress for your American Girl Doll is the perfect piece for
that wholesome country look. It features some ribbing at the waist
Bags that hugs the hips and adds shape. You can easily change the width
Cardigans an and spacing of the contrast color bands in the skirt to achieve
Children exactly the look you want. Feel free to play around!
Cowls You can purchase this jumper from our Etsy store!
Doll Clothes
Skills Required/Techniques Used:
Dresses
Hats -Knit & purl, cast on & bind off
Holidays -Picking up stitches
Easter
Materials: Grace by Patons sport weight yarn (100% Mercerized
Home Decor Cotton), 125m (136 yds)/50 gr - 1 ball of blue and some amount of
Jewelry white;
Mittens and G
2 small white buttons 5-6 mm,
Poncho
Scarves Needles: US #1 (2.25 mm) circular needles OR SIZE NEEDED TO
OBTAIN GAUGE
Shawls
Skirts Gauge for stockinette stitch: 26 st x 40 rows = 4" x 4"(10 cm)
Top
Notions: yarn needle, 2 small buttons, sewing needle and sewing
Vests thread to attach the buttons.
Knit Abbreviations:
Afghans
K – knit
Baby
Bags P – purl
Capes St – stitch
Cardigans an
 Children Sts -
Cowls
Doll Clothes
Dresses
For Men
Hats
Holidays
Christma
House Acces
Jewelry
Mittens and G
Poncho
Scarves
Shawl
Shrugs
Skirts
Socks
Sweaters and
Vests

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stitches

pu&k - pick up and knit

as est. - as established, work as the pattern demands, here knit the

RS rows and purl the WS rows.

co – cast on

RS – right side

WS – wrong side

m1 - make 1 increase - I used the increase described by Elizabeth

Zimmerman: make a backward loop over the right-hand needle and
in the next row/round purl/knit as a regular stitch

Pattern Notes:

Garter Stitch in rows: all rows knit

Garter stitch in rounds:

Round 1 and all odd rounds: knit

Round 2 and all even rounds: purl

Repeat 2 rounds

Stockinette Stitch in rows:

Row 1 (RS and all RS rows): knit

Row 2 (WS and all WS rows): purl

Repeat 2 rows.

Stockinette Stitch in rounds: all rounds knit

1x1 Rib in rounds: all rounds k1, p1

Selvedge stitches: knit the first stitch and purl the last

Jumper

The jumper is worked top down, starting from the front bib, the skirt
is worked in the round, the back straps are added with pick-up
stitches.

Bib

Cast on 18 stitches. Work 5 rows in garter stitch (all rows knit).

Row 6 and all even rows (WS): k 4, purl to the last 4 sts, k 3, p 1.

Row 7 (RS) and rows 11, 15, 19 and 23: knit to the last st, p 1.

Row 9 and rows 13, 17, and 21 (RS, increase rows): k 4, m 1, knit to
the last 4 sts, m 1, k 3, p 1. In each of these rows the number of sts
is increased by 2. After row 9 = 20 sts.

After row 13 = 22 sts

After row 17 = 24 sts

After row 21 = 26 sts

Row 25: k 26, cast on 36 sts, join into round and continue to work
in-the-round, be careful not to twist the sts.

Skirt

The jumper is worked in blue, to make white stripes work the

following rounds in white (optional): 10-11; 17-19; 29-30; 37-39.

Round 1: k26, work 1x1 rib (k1, p1) over the the cast-on 36 stitches.
= 62 sts

Rounds 2-8: k 26, (k1, p1) over 36 stitches. = 62 sts

Round 9: *k1, m1 - repeat across the round. = 124 sts

Rounds 10-43: knit

Work the next 6 rounds in garter stitch: rounds 44, 46, 48 purl,
rounds 45, 47, 49 knit. Bind off. Cut yarn, weave in the ends.

Back straps

Count 12 sts from the right edge of the bib, pu&k the next 12 sts.
Work 12 rows in garter stitch (all rows knit) : k11, p1.

in row 13, divide for 2 straps: work 6 sts from your ball of yarn, then
work the next 6 sts

from a new ball of yarn: k5, p1. After the division work 26 rows on
each strap, in row 27 make buttonholes: k2, k2tog, yo, k1, p1. Work
3 more rows and bind off. Cut yarn.

Finishing

Weave in the ends. Sew buttons to the front bib.

Enjoy!
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