Paso Fino Cardigan

My cardigan was machine knit on Passap knitting machine with double bed. I used some stash yarn (2/30 grey and 2/24 blue doubled). I designed the pattern in Designaknit Standard Garment Designer. It is a basic round neck, straight sleeve cardigan with oversize fit in size 34. I did add length to the sleeves and bodice. The cardigan band is knit in 1×1 rib. It is the type band that after cast on, you transfer some of the stitches on each edge to opposite beds. (3 stitches on left of front bed transfer to back bed, and 1st stitch of right on back bed transfer to front bed). This adds the stockinette “curl” to the ends of the band. The side of band with more curl (the 3 stitches) is the side of band sewn onto the front edge of bodice. The stockinette curl hides the sewing machine stitching.

The cardigan was designed with the cut and sew method in Designaknit. I cut the pieces with a rotary cutter on a cutting mat and serged the edges before assembly.

The bodice and sleeves were assembled with a Juki industrial serger. First the front pieces were serged to the back piece at the shoulders. Then the sleeves were serged on.

The band was sewn on with a sewing machine with walking foot.

I am very happy with how it turned out. It is super warm with a nice drape. I have Paso Fino horses and will be wearing my cardigan to show support for the breed.

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